Benchmark Marathon: 65 CPUs from 100 MHz to 3066 MHz
Table of contents
- 1. CPU Performance Check: AMD & Intel 1994 To 2003
- 2. CPU Performance Check: AMD & Intel 1994 To 2003, Continued
- 3. Three Hundred Hours Of Benchmark Testing
- 4. Three Hundred Hours Of Benchmark Testing, Continued
- 5. Intel CPUs From 486DX To The Pentium 4/3066
- 6. Intel Pentium 75 To 200: March 1994 To June 1996
- 7. Intel Pentium 150 To 233 mmX: October 1996 To June 1997
- 8. Intel Celeron 233 To 533: April 1998 TO January 2000
- 9. Pentium II/233 To 450: May 1997 To August 1998
- 10. Pentium III/500 To 1133: October 1999 To July 2001
- 11. Celeron II/533 To 1100: January2000 To July 2001
- 12. Celeron/Pentium III/1000 To 1400: January 2000 To July 2001
- 13. Pentium 4/1300 To 3066 MHz: November 2000 To Date
- 14. AMD CPUs: From The K5-75 To The Athlon XP 3000+
- 15. K6-2+/400 To K6-2+/550: April 2000 To September 2000
- 16. K6-III/400 To K6-III/500: February 1999 To September 2000
- 17. Athlon 500 To 1000: August 1999 To May 2000
- 18. Athlon 650 To 1400: June 2000 To June 2001
- 19. Duron 600 To 950: June 2000 To June 2001
- 20. Athlon XP 1500+ To 2100+: October 2001 To March 2002
- 21. Athlon XP 1700+ To 2800+: June 2002 To October 2002
- 22. Test Setup And Details
- 23. OpenGL-Performance: Quake 3 Arena
- 24. DirectX-8-Game: 3D Mark 2001 SE
- 25. DirectX8-Game: Unreal Tournament 2003
- 26. Audio-Encoding MP3: Mp3 Maker Platinium 3.04
- 27. Video-Encoding MPEG-2: Main Concept 1.3
- 28. Multimedia: PC Mark 2002
- 29. SiSoft Sandra 2003 Benchmarks: CPU Und Multimedia
- 30. SiSoft Sandra 2003 Benchmarks, Continued
- 31. File Compression: Winrar 3.1
- 32. Office/ Internet Performance: Sysmark 2002
- 33. Sysmark 2002, Continued
Opinions on what constitutes "adequate computing speed" vary greatly from one user to the next. While one person may be perfectly content with an old Pentium 133 system that stores stamp club membership details in a DOS program in "real-time mode", there is another group at the other end of the scale - video fans who must have the latest and greatest and who will clamor for more and more Gigahertz and gigabytes. This is an extreme comparison, it's true, but it reflects the broad spectrum of computers in use today and their users' opinions about the adequacy of their systems. With this thought in mind, we have been delving into a subject that occupies the minds of anyone buying a new PC, especially 'upgraders': what performance improvement can be expected when replacing processor X with processor Y? As the entire architecture of the PC (memory, chipset, and platform) has changed over the years, we have tried to present a uniform view under Windows XP.
Runs under Windows XP with 512 MB of RAM: Socket 7 platform with Intel Pentium 100 from 1994. Even an AGP graphics card, the Geforce 4 Ti 4600, works perfectly here.
Incredible, but true: Pentium 100 with a maximum of 512 MB SDRAM and 66 MHz system clock.
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