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Pictures
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RAID
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RAID
Setup
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Manual
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Amendment
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Cables
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CD
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Benchmarking Setup
Hardware
| CPU |
Intel
Pentium 3 700E @ 980MHz (supplied by AD
of K)
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| Heatsink
& Fan |
GlobalWin
FKP32 (supplied by AD of
K)
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| Motherboard |
Iwill
VD133Pro w/vdp0612 BIOS (supplied by Iwill)
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| Memory |
Techworks 128MB CAS2 PC133 (supplied by AD
of K)
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| Hard
Drive |
IBM
15.3GB 75GXP 7200 RPM ATA100
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CD-ROM
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Kenwood
72X w/221E BIOS (supplied by AD
of K)
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| Sound
Card |
Onboard
AC97
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| Video
Card |
Creative
Labs Annihilator GTS 32MB (220 mem/366 core)
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Software
| Operating
System |
Windows
98SE
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| Video
Drivers |
Detonator
5.22, AGP4.03
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Benchmarking
Applications
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| OpenGL |
From
Quake 3 Area version 1.11: demo0001 "N" (640x480@16bpp),
demo001 "H" (1024x768@32bpp). |
| DirectX |
From
Unreal Tournament version 420: UTBench.dem "N" (640x480@16bit),
UTBench.dem "H" (1024x768@32bpp). From 3DMark2000 build
335: default benchmark at 1024x768@16bpp (3DMarks). |
| Other |
From
WinTune98 version 42: D3D (MP/s), OpenGL (MP/s), Memory
(MB/s). Video Tests ran at 1024x768@16bpp. SiSoft Sandra 200 Professional.
HDTach version 2.61. |
Hard Drive Tests
What bugs me the most
about the 133Pro is the lack of full ATA66 support. Let me clarify. After
hours of testing with 4 different ATA66 and ATA33 cables, and several IDE
driver files, I can conclude that the 133Pro does not have full ATA66 support
from anything other than its RAID connectors. Since I'm far from the RAID
guru, I pondered if using the RAID setup as a standard IDE controller would
work. It did. At this time, I'm unable to determine if the highpoint BIOS
or drivers need further massaging to get closer to 66MB/s peak speeds. The
standard (supposedly ATA66) IDE controllers maxed the IBM out at 30MB/s. Since
that curve was a boring flat line, I chose to show you this one:
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