System Setup

AMD Athlon XP 2600+
AMD Athlon XP 2100+
AMD Athlon XP 1800+

Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz
Intel Pentium 4 2.2GHz

Epox EP-8K3A+ (KT333)
SiS 648 reference motherboard

256MB CAS2 DDR333 SDRAM
256MB CAS2.5 DDR400 SDRAM (for 2.53GHz Pentium 4)

NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600
Driver version Detonator 30.82

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

Windows XP Professional

DirectX 8.1

Desktop Resolution: 1024x768x32

Benchmarks

3DMark 2001 Second Edition - 32-bit color, 32-bit textures
Quake 3 Retail - High Quality
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter - Normal (32-bit) The Elephant Atrium demo
Jedi Knight II - High Quality
Comanche 4
SYSmark 2002
Business Winstone 2001
Content Creation Winstone 2002

Notes

We decided to use the SiS 648 reference motherboard to represent the Pentium 4 platform as we feel it offers the best combination of price/performance of all the solutions available. So far the only SiS 648 motherboard on the market is the ABIT SR7-8X although the ASUS P4S8X (with optional Serial ATA) should be hitting US shores any day now.