All testing will be done at 32 bit color, vsync is off, AA is off, and all of the memory options are at the most aggressive settings. All the eye candy will be turned on at its highest for all of the game testing.
Test Bed
- AOpen AK77 Pro(A)-133
- Duron 700
- 256MB Crucial PC2100
- 3DPower Geforce 3
- Antec 300w PSU
- SVC Glacial Cooler 68
As you can see I will be benchmarking first with a Duron 700 with a FSB of 100Mhz
I ran SiSoft Sandra Pro 2002.1.8.59 and benchmarked the CPU, Multimedia, and memory bandwidth, because its a Duron 700Mhz and at 100Mhz FSB the scores are nothing spectacular, however this is just to get an idea of how much of a boost overclocking will give us later.
The scores for 3DMark2000 are not very good because of the stock speed and the 100Mhz FSB of this CPU. However you will see later that with a little overclocking that the scores will look much better.
3DMark2001 scores are also not very good for the same reasons, but later you will see that they as well will increase to a much nicer score.
Quake 3 performance was pretty good even with the slow CPU, even at 1600×1200 I still got 76.8 FPS which is more than enough to play the game without anything being choppy.
Serious Sam frame rates were less than desirable however this is again due to the slow CPU and low FSB speed.
