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July
4, 2000 - By Dave
Altavilla
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| HotHardware's
T-Bird Test System |
| A
little un-orthodox |
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System
1:
Full Tower ATX
Case w/ 300W PS, Slot A
Thunderbird Athlon 700 (provided by Azzo
Computer), Gigabyte GA-7VX
Motherboard (full review soon), 128MB of
PC133 SDRAM, WD Expert AC418000 7200 RPM
ATA66 Hard Drive, Elsa Gladiac, Kenwood
72X CDROM, Win 98SE,
NVidia 5.30 Drivers, DirectX 7.0a
System 2:
Full
Tower ATX Case w/ 300W PS, Pentium
3 733EB, Soyo SY-6BA+IV BX chipset
Motherboard, 128MB of PC133 SDRAM,
WD Expert AC418000 7200 RPM ATA66 Hard
Drive, Elsa Gladiac, Kenwood 72X CDROM,
Win 98SE,
NVidia 5.30 Drivers, DirectX 7.0a
System 3:
Full
Tower
Tower
ATX Case w/ 300W PS, Engineering Sample of
Pentium III 933EB, Abit
CX6 i820 Motherboard, 128MB of
800MHz (400MHz. DDR) RDRAM, WD Expert
AC418000 7200 RPM ATA66 Hard Drive, Kenwood
72X CDROM, Elsa Gladiac GeForce2 GTS AGP,
NVidia GeForce Reference Drivers Version
5.30,
DirectX 7.0a, Win98SE
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| Benchmarks
On A Bird |
| Throttle
up! |
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As
per our usual approach in this section,
let's get a high level view of the
relative performance of the T-Bird with Sisoft's
Sandra Benchmark Suite.
SiSoft
Sandra Benchmarks
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T-Bird
CPU Test 700MHz.
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T-Bird
Multimedia Test 700MHz.
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T-Bird
Memory Test 700MHz.
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P3
CPU Test BX/733MHz.
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P3
Multimedia Test BX/733MHz.
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T-Bird
CPU Test 863MHz.
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T-Bird
Multimedia Test 863MHz.
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T-Bird
Memory Test 863MHz.
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We
threw in a couple of Pentium 3 733 scores
taken on a BX board, just to see if you
were on your toes. :) What is
interesting to note is the fact that the
P3-733 is almost identical to a
Thunderbird 700, at least as far as the
Sandra tests are concerned. Then
take a look at the 863MHz. T-Bird
scores. They are fantastic.
Look at those Memory Bandwidth
numbers! Remember, this is a VIA
chipset board we are testing on here
folks. Nothing but excellent
performance all around for the T-Bird.
So
let's have a look at some Ziff Davis
Winstone numbers....
Content
Creation Winstone 2000
About
on par with the P3 on a much more
expensive i820/RAMBUS platform, the
T-Bird/KX133 holds it own very well.
The Content Creation Winstone tests seem
to favor Intel processors for some reason
(perhaps better MMX optimizations in the
application tests) and the fact that they
are neck and neck here shows the
advancements AMD has made.
Let's
take care of business and get to some
gaming benchmarks! |
