Benchmarking
Setup
Hardware
| CPU(s) |
AMD
Athlon XP 1800+ (1533 MHz) |
| Heatsink
& Fan | |
| Motherboard(s) |
Soltek
SL-75ERV |
| Memory |
256 MB DDR PC2100 (266 MHz) |
| Hard
Drive(s) | Western
Digital 27 GB ATA66 |
|
CD-ROM |
EPO
50x, Philips 8x CDRW |
| Sound
Card | On
board 3D Surround (AC97 Codec) |
| Video
Card | |
Software
| Operating
System | Windows
2000 Professional SP-2 |
| Video
/ VIA Drivers |
nVidia 28.32 drivers / VIA 4.38(2)v(a) 4-in-1 drivers |
| | Benchmarking
Applications |
| OpenGL |
Quake
III Arena |
| DirectX |
Microsoft
DirectX 8.1 |
| Other |
Madonion
3DMark 2000 v1.1, 3D Mark 2001 |
We
soldier on with the AthlonXP 1800+. Yes there are faster CPUs available from AMD
but they haven't cared to send us an update for our lab. Entering the configuratoin
is the X-Micro GeForce4 MX440 which was overclocked to 330 MHz core and 460 MHz
memory. At $149 this is quite a good performing video card.
Once
again Bart from 1COOLPC has stepped in and
sent us an awesome heatsink to use for our testing. My first experience with the
ThermoEngine was unsatisfactory due to a slight crushing incident (!) but luckily
Bart is stocking copper shims for the Athlon XP and it appears that ThermoEngine
has made a slight change to the heatsink clipping mechanism. This heatsink is
smaller than the unit I used in the original SL75DRV review but is more than adequate
for the heat production of the AthlonXP.
The
Latest 4 in 1 drivers resolve some video install issues - and uninstall apparently.
