Testing Methods and System Setup
Test System Setup
Though we obviously had to make some slight changes, the test beds were kept as exact as possible. The Pentium M setup uses the same GPU, but in its AGP form and of course we have the other differences we already mentioned (such as DDR333, single channel, etc).
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Pentium M Test System Setup | |
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CPU |
Intel Pentium M 755 |
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Motherboards |
DFI 855GME-MGF |
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Power Supply |
Antec 480 watt |
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Memory |
2x512MB Corsair Micro DDR500 |
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Hard Drive |
250 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM SATA |
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Sound Card |
Creative Labs Live! |
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Video Card |
ATI X800 XT (AGP) |
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Video Drivers |
ATI Catalyst 4.11 |
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DirectX Version |
DX 9.0c |
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Operating System |
Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
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AMD Test System Setup | |
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CPU |
Athlon 64 FX-55 |
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Motherboards |
NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra Reference |
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Power Supply |
Antec 480 watt |
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Memory |
2x512MB Corsair Micro DDR500 |
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Hard Drive |
250 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM SATA |
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Sound Card |
Creative Labs Live! |
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Video Card |
ATI X800 XT |
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Video Drivers |
ATI Catalyst 4.11 |
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DirectX Version |
DX 9.0c |
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Operating System |
Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
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Intel Test System Setup | |
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CPU |
Intel 660 |
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Motherboards |
Intel 925XE Reference |
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Power Supply |
Antec 480 watt |
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Memory |
2x512MB Corsair Micro DDR2-533 |
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Hard Drive |
250 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM SATA |
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Sound Card |
Creative Labs Live! |
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Video Card |
ATI X800 XT |
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Video Drivers |
ATI Catalyst 4.11 |
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DirectX Version |
DX 9.0c |
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Operating System |
Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
The benchmarks used were:
- SiSoft Sandra 2004 SP1
- AIDA32
- Cachemem
- Quake III: Arena
- Unreal Tournament 2003
- X2: The Threat
- 3D Mark 2001: SE v330
- 3DMark03
- Far Cry 1.1
- Doom 3
- PCMark04
- Business Winstone 2004
- Content Creation Winstone 2004
- LAME MP3 Encoding
- XMPEG / DivX Encoding
- WinRAR Compression
- CineBench 2003
- ScienceMark 2.0 Beta
