The Test
Because we still don't know what changing the R126/127 resistor actually does, we limited the test suite to only a handful of applications that best illustrate what kind of performance improvement to expect.
The instability of the beta BIOS files also limited the number of benchmarks we could complete successfully. We will provide updates as we receive more information and provide updated benchmarks if necessary.
To keep things simple, we only used one CPU: an Athlon-C 1.0GHz running at 1000/133 with PC2100 DDR SDRAM (PC133 SDRAM in the case of the KT133A).
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Windows 98SE / 2000 Test System |
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Hardware |
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CPU(s) |
AMD
Athlon "Thunderbird" 1.0GHz AMD Athlon-C "Thunderbird" 1.0GHz |
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| Motherboard(s) |
ASUS A7V133 MSI K7T266 Pro |
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| Memory |
256MB
PC133 Corsair SDRAM (Micron -7E CAS2) |
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| Hard Drive |
IBM Deskstar 30GB 75GXP 7200 RPM Ultra ATA/100 |
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| CDROM |
Phillips 48X |
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| Video Card(s) |
NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra 64MB DDR (default clock - 250/230 DDR) |
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| Ethernet |
Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter |
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Software |
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Operating System |
Windows
98 SE |
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| Video Drivers |
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Benchmarking Applications |
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| Gaming |
Quake III Arena v1.27g demo127.dm3 |
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| Productivity |
BAPCo
SYSMark 2000
Benchmark Studio Beta 2.0 |
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| Professional |
SPECviewperf
6.1.2
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| Synthetic |
SiSoft
Sandra 2001
Linpack Cachemem |
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