Benchmarking Setup
We ran the tests in the same configuration as we used for ''. This way we were able to compare our i815 results with the scores of BX, i820, i840 and VIA Apollo Pro 133A without having to re-run the whole batch of benchmarks. Therefore we used the driver release 5.08 for the GeForce graphics card. I still checked if there's a significant difference to the scores under the latest rev. 5.22 drivers and could only find that the Q3-results dropped a bit from 5.08 to 5.22. Hence we feel that there's even a lot of sense in preferring 5.08 over 5.22.
We used the Asus CUSL2 motherboard for this test. We have already reported on this board from Computex in . The platform was very stable and easy to install, as we are used to from Intel-based platforms.
| Platform Information | |
| Graphics card for all tests | NVIDIA GeForce 256 120MHz Core, 300MHz DDR-RAM 32MB |
| Hard Drive for all tests | Seagate Barracuda ATA ST320430A |
| CPU for all tests | Intel Pentium III 1GHz, 133 MHz FSB |
| Intel i815E Chipset Final | |
| Motherboard | Asus CUSL2, BIOS 1002 |
| Memory | 128 MB, Wichmann WorkX MXM128 PC133 SDRAM CAS2, settings 2-2-2, 5/7 |
| IDE Interface | Onboard ICH2, ATA100 capable |
| Network | 3Com 3C905B-TX |
| VIA Apollo Pro 133A Chipset | |
| Motherboard | Asus P3V4X, ACPI BIOS 1002 final, March 2000 |
| Memory | 128 MB, Enhanced Memory Systems PC133 HSDRAM CAS2 |
| IDE Interface | Promise Ultra66 PCI card |
| Network | 3Com 3C905B-TX |
| Intel 440 BX Chipset | |
| Motherboard | Asus P3B-F, ACPI BIOS 1005 beta 01, March 2000 |
| Memory | 128 MB, Enhanced Memory Systems PC133 HSDRAM CAS2 |
| IDE Interface | Promise Ultra66 PCI card |
| Network | 3Com 3C905B-TX |
| Intel 820 Chipset | |
| Motherboard | Asus P3C-L, ACPI BIOS 1020 beta 05, March 2000 |
| Memory | 128 MB, Samsung PC800 RDRAM, RDRAM clock adjusted in BIOS |
| IDE Interface | onboard |
| Network | Onboard i82559 |
| Intel 840 Chipset | |
| Motherboard | OR840, special unreleased BIOS |
| Memory | 128 MB, Samsung PC800 RDRAM 128 MB, Samsung PC700 RDRAM, running as PC600 RDRAM |
| IDE Interface | onboard |
| Network | Onboard i82559 |
| Driver Information | |
| Graphics Driver | NVIDIA 4.12.01.0508 |
| viagart.vxd for VIA Chipsets | AGP-driver 3.56 |
| ATA Driver | Promise Ultra66 driver rev. 1.43 Intel Ultra ATA BM driver v5.00.038 |
| Environment Settings | |
| OS Versions | Windows 98 SE 4.10.2222 A Screen Resolution 1024x768x16x85 Screen Resolution 1280x1024x32x85 for SPECviewperf |
| DirectX Version | 7.0 |
| Quake 2 | Version 3.20 command line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0 Crusher demo, 640x480x16 |
| Quake 3 Arena | Retail Version command line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0 Graphics detail set to 'Normal', 640x480x16 Benchmark using 'Q3DEMO1' |
| Expendable | Downloadable Demo Version command line = -timedemo 640x480x16 |
| Unreal Tournament | Ver. 4.05b high quality textures, medium quality skins, no tweaks 640x480x16 Benchmark using 'UTBench'. |
