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A couple of years back, Intel had completely dropped support for the Socket 7 platform starting from the release of the Pentium II and Celeron processors. At the time, CPU manufacturers such as AMD, Cyrix (before being purchased by VIA), IDT (the Centaur division also owned by VIA), IBM and Rise remained on the Socket 7 bandwagon as they knew it was costly for the consumer moving to a Slot 1 solution.
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System Spec's and Winstone
The following hardware configuration was used
to put the board through the benchmarks
System
Configuration
AMD K6-3 400
Red Fox AGP ALi Motherboard
96MB
PC100 SDRAM (CAS-2) running
8.4GB Quantum Fireball CR (under
DMA/33)
Winstone Performance
For this benchmark, Winstone 99 and Content Creation
Winstone 2000 have been used to test the overall performance of the test bed
setup. Winstone 99 (Business Winstone 99) v1.2 is used to test the overall
business performance of the computer system by using applications such as MS
Office 97, Lotus Smartsuite 97, etc. Content Creation Winstone 2000 is a
system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall
performance when running today's Windows-based Internet content creation
applications. The test focuses on top-selling Internet content creation
applications.
Each test was run 3 times with the result being the average
value of the 3 test runs. Higher numbers indicate better performance.
This board certainly performs well
under the Business Winstone category as any other normal board should perform.
The CCW scores though, were slightly lower than expected and was out of the
normal range of other boards by 1 - 1.3 points. Considering that the
applications tested under CCW are extremely disk intensive, the board could
possibly have had a slight performance boost with the addition of an ATA/66
interface. Don't expect the CCW scores to go soaring with ATA/66 of course. We
have seen in many reviews that as of now, drive technology is still a bit
premature with today's drives to take full advantage of a 66MB/sec
bandwidth.
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