Test System

System Setup

Intel Pentium III 600
Abit BE6 for Slot-1
Intel Celeron 400
Intel Celeron 300A
Corsair PC-100 3.3v SDRAM - 1x128MB
3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP
     Driver version 1.03.00
3dfx Voodoo3 3000 PCI
     Driver version 1.03.00
3dfx Voodoo3 2000 PCI
     Driver version 1.03.00
3dfx Voodoo2 SLI
     Driver version 3.03.00
Diamond Viper V550
     Driver version 2.08 (Detonator)
Western Digital Caviar 26400 6.4GB EIDE HD

Benchmarks

(All tests run under a clean install of Windows 98)

3DMark99 MAX - 800x600x16
3DMark99 MAX - 800x600x32
3DMark99 MAX - 1024x768x16
3DMark99 MAX - 1024x768x32

Quake II 3.20 Demo1 - 640x480x8
Quake II 3.20 Demo1 - 1024x768x16

Quake II 3.20 Crusher - 640x480x8
Quake II 3.20 Crusher - 1024x768x16

Q3Test 1.08 - 640x480 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Q3Test 1.08 - 800x600 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Q3Test 1.08 - 1024x768 Fastest, Normal, High Quality

Expendable demo - 640x480x16
Expendable demo - 640x480x32
Expendable demo - 800x600x16
Expendable demo - 800x600x32
Expendable demo - 1024x768x16
Expendable demo - 1024x768x32

In our tests we used a variety of CPU's to depict how well the PCI model runs on various platforms. We also threw in older video cards to present its upgrade potential to users still running TNT's and Voodoo2's. We finished up the benchmarks with the TNT2 and Voodoo3's to represent its performance against current graphics cards.