Three Hundred Hours of Benchmark
Testing
Before some overly critical observers voice their
opinions, we would like to explain more about the benchmark tests we
carried out at the Tom's Hardware lab - the biggest test we have
ever undertaken. For our comparison of 65 processors we used 13 CPU
platforms configured as they would have been at the time of their
introduction. We looked at the following platforms in detail:
Socket 7: Intel Pentium 100/166MMX/233MMX
Board: DFI K6XV3+/66 Rev. B2 with 2 MB L3 cache (VIA MVP3)
RAM: 66/100 MHz SDRAM
The legendary Socket 7: the DFI
K6XV3+/66 with VIA MVP3 chipset and Ultra-DMA/66.
Socket 7: AMD K6-2/500, K6-2+/500,
K6-III/450
Board: DFI K6XV3+/66 Rev. B2 with 2 MB L3 cache (VIA
MVP3)
RAM: 66/100 MHz SDRAM
Socket 370: Intel Celeron 400/500
Board:
Epox EP-BX7+ Rev. 1.0 (Intel 440BX)
RAM: 66 MHz SDRAM
Intel's best chipset ever: Epox
EP-BX7+ with 440BX and Socket 370.
Socket 370: Intel Pentium III/1000, Celeron
1100
Board: Asus TUSL2 Rev. 1.03 (Intel 815E)
RAM: 100/133
MHz SDRAM
Socket 370: Intel Pentium III-S/1400,
Celeron 1300
Board: Asus TUSL2-C Rev. 1.04 (Intel 815 EPT)
RAM: 100/133 MHz SDRAM
Last upgrade level for Socket
370: Asus TUSL2-C with Intel 815 EPT chipset.
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