Test System Setup

Test System

Intel FCPGA P3-700MHz@945MHz (7.0x135MHz)
Intel FCPGA Celeron 600@945MHz (9.0x105MHz)
Abit BE6-2 BX Motherboard Abit Slocket III adapter

AMD Athlon 700@950MHz(9.5x100MHz)
AMD Duron 600@950MHz(9.5x100MHz)
Abit KT7-RAID KT133 Motherboard

Micron 128MB PC133 CAS3 SDRAM

Western Digital Caviar ATA-66 hard drive

NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS
Driver version: Detonator 6.18 (Detonator 3)

Win98SE

Benchmarks

Content Creation Winstone 2000
Winbench 99 1.1 CPUmark 99
Winbench 99 1.1 FPU WinMark

3DMark2000 - 640x480x16
3DMark2000 - 640x480x32
3DMark2000 - 800x600x16
3DMark2000 - 800x600x32
3DMark2000 - 1024x768x16
3DMark2000 - 1024x768x32

Quake 3 1.17 - 640x480 Fastest
Quake 3 1.17 - 800x600 Fastest
Quake 3 1.17 - 1024x768 Fastest
Quake 3 1.17 - 1280x1024 Fastest
Quake 3 1.17 - 1600x1275 Fastest

MDK2 - 640x480x16
MDK2 - 640x480x32
MDK2 - 800x600x16
MDK2 - 800x600x32

Notes

Surprisingly, we were able to overclock all of our processors to the 950MHz range, although we did have to break out the Alpha cooler to keep the Celeron stable in the 3DMark tests. We used Thermaltake Golden Orb coolers with the rest of the processors. Knowledge Micro supplied us with all the processors for our tests.

We have to warn readers about using the Golden Orbs with AMD processors. We found that the coolers aren't quite compatible. The Golden Orbs will fit, but you have to apply more force than usual to twist them in place. We managed to grind down the corners of our Athlon. Thankfully, our Athlon still works.