System Setup

Test System Setup

AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1.2GHz (266MHz)

ASUS A7V133 (VIA KT133A)
BIOS Revision 1004
ASUS A7A266 (ALi MAGiK 1)
BIOS Revision 1004 Beta 002
FIC AD11 (AMD-760)
BIOS Revision ABA42
Shuttle AK32 (VIA KT266)
BIOS Revision S901
SiS 735 Reference Board
BIOS Revision p036

VIA 4-in-1 4.29's used for all VIA-based systems
AMD-760 system: AGP miniport ver 4.80 w/ VIA 4.29
ALi MAGiK 1 system: AGP driver 1.70, IDE Cache Utility 1.05, and FIR driver 1.141
SiS AGP Driver 1.03

256MB Corsair PC133 CAS2 SDRAM
256MB Corsair PC2100 CAS2 DDR SDRAM

ELSA GLADIAC GeForce2 Ultra
Driver version Detonator 6.50

30GB IBM Deskstar DTLA 307030 ATA/100 Hard Drive
AFREEY 12X DVD-ROM
Windows 98 SE

Desktop resolution 800x600x16

Benchmarks

Winbench 99 1.1
CPUMark99
FPUMark
SiSoft Sandra 2001 CPU tests - Dhrystone, Whetstone, MMX, SSE, HD, CPU/memory, FPU/memory tests

SYSmark 2001

3DMark2000 ver 1.1

Unreal Tournament - 640x480x32
Unreal Tournament - 800x600x32
Unreal Tournament - 1024x7680x32
Unreal Tournament - 1280x1024x32

Quake 3 Retail - 640x480 Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 800x600 Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1024x768 Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1280x960 Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1600x1200 Normal, High Quality

MDK2 - 640x480x32
MDK2 - 800x600x32
MDK2 - 1024x768x32
MDK2 - 1280x1024x32
MDK2 - 1600x1200x32

Serious Sam - 640x480x32
Serious Sam - 800x600x32
Serious Sam - 1024x768x32
Serious Sam - 1280x1024x32

Notes

We wanted to pit all systems included in this article with CAS 2 latency timings. Unfortunately, the SiS reference board wasn't stable at that setting, so we used CAS latency 2.5 with the "Ultra" BIOS settings. All other systems utilized CAS 2 latency memory.