Intel Pentium II OverDrive

The Socket-8 Test System Configuration was as follows:

• Intel Pentium Pro 150, 166, 180, 200 (256KB L2)
• Octek Rhino P6 Pro 440FX Based Socket-8 board
• 64MB EDO DRAM
• Western Digital Caviar AC35100 - UltraATA
• Matrox Millennium II PCI Video Card (4MB)
• Canopus Pure3D-2 Voodoo2 (12MB)

The Socket-7/Super7 Test System Configuration was as follows:

• AMD K6 233, AMD K6-2 350, AMD K6-3 450 (engineering sample)
• FIC PA-2013 w/ 2MB L2 Cache
• 64MB PC100 SDRAM
• Western Digital Caviar AC35100 - UltraATA
• Matrox Millennium G200 AGP Video Card (8MB)
• Canopus Pure3D-2 Voodoo2 (12MB)

The Pentium II comparison system differed only in terms of the processor and motherboard in which case the following components were used:

• Intel Celeron 300, Intel Celeron 300A, Intel Pentium II 400, Intel Pentium II 450
• ABIT BH6 Pentium II BX Motherboard

The following drivers were common to both test systems:

• MGA G200 Drivers v1677_426
• DirectX 6

The benchmark suite consisted of the following applications:

• Ziff Davis Winstone 99 under Windows 98 & Windows NT4 SP4
• Quake 2 v3.19 using demo1.dm2 and Brett "3 Fingers" Jacobs Crusher.dm2 demo

All Winstone tests were run at 1024 x 768 x 16 bit color, all gaming performance tests were run at 800 x 600 x 16 bit color. 3DNow! support was enabled when applicable.