The Test

Windows 98 SE Test System

Hardware

CPU(s)

Intel Pentium III 800E
Intel Pentium III 700E
Intel Pentium III 600E

Intel Pentium III 800
Intel Pentium III 733
Intel Pentium III 667
Intel Pentium III 600EB
AMD Athlon 850
AMD Athlon 800
AMD Athlon 700
AMD Athlon 600
AMD Athlon 500
Motherboard(s) ABIT BE6 AOpen AX6C Tyan Trinity 400 Rev D. Gigabyte GA-7IX ASUS K7V-RM
Memory

128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM

128MB PC800 Samsung RDRAM
128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM
Hard Drive

IBM Deskstar DPTA-372050 20.5GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA 66

CDROM

Phillips 48X

Video Card(s)

NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB DDR (default clock - 120/150 DDR)

Ethernet

Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter

Software

Operating System

Windows 98 SE

Video Drivers

NVIDIA GeForce 256 - Detonator 3.76 @ 1024 x 768 x 16 @ 75Hz

Benchmarking Applications

Gaming

GT Interactive Unreal Tournament 4.04 UTbench.dem
idSoftware Quake III Arena demo001.dm3
Rage Software Expendable Timedemo

Productivity
BAPCo SYSMark 2000
Ziff Davis Content Creation Winstone 2000

 

Windows NT SP6.1a Test System

Hardware

CPU(s)

Intel Pentium III 800E
Intel Pentium III 700E
Intel Pentium III 600E

Intel Pentium III 800
Intel Pentium III 733
Intel Pentium III 667
Intel Pentium III 600EB
AMD Athlon 850
AMD Athlon 800
AMD Athlon 700
AMD Athlon 600
AMD Athlon 500
Motherboard(s)
ABIT BE6
AOpen AX6C
Tyan Trinity 400 Rev D.
Gigabyte GA-7IX
EPoX K7XA
Memory

128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM

128MB PC800 Samsung RDRAM
128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM
Hard Drive

IBM Deskstar DPTA-372050 20.5GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA 66

CDROM

Phillips 48X

Video Card(s)

NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB DDR (default clock - 120/150 DDR)

Ethernet

Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter

Software

Operating System

Windows NT4 Service Pack 6.1a

Video Drivers

NVIDIA GeForce 256 - Detonator 3.76 @ 1024 x 768 x 32 @ 75Hz
VIA AGP GART Drivers v4.00 was used for all VIA based boards

Benchmarking Applications

Professional

SPECviewperf 6.1.1

Motherboard Support & Overclocking Content Creation Winstone 2000 Performance
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  • vortmax2 - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link

    Ahh, the days when AMD lead the benchmark charts... ;)
  • wingless - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link

    These were definitely the days. AMD dominated for about as many years as Intel has so far (January 4th, 2017). In the next few months after I post this, we'll see if AMD's Ryzen brings them back into the competition.
  • Cloakist - Friday, July 5, 2019 - link

    We're back baby
  • Thatguy97 - Wednesday, November 25, 2020 - link

    Oh we back back
  • ruxandy - Sunday, May 16, 2021 - link

    Oh, we be back back back back!

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