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In this edition I refrained from adding any other component to the Power Box, such as a sound card, DVD-ROM, CD/RW and more, because the benchmarks in this first Power Box article would not benefit from it.

The Challengers

To give you some kind of idea of the performance of the Power Box, I compared it to two top-notch systems that are available right now. The first is a system equipped with Intel's Pentium 4 1.5 GHz processor, Asus P4T i850 motherboard, 256 MB PC800 RDRAM and a GeForce2 Ultra graphics card. The other system comes with AMD's Athlon 'C' 1.2 GHz, Asus A7M266 AMD760 motherboard, 256 MB PC2100 CL2 DDR-SDRAM and also a GeForce2 Ultra graphics card.

You will see that the second half of this article is a feast for benchmark addicts. I ran as many benchmarks as I could think of to compare the three systems. You will see that the Power Box is as good as unchallenged.

Test Setup

System Power Box Pentium 4 System Athlon DDR System
Processor Athlon 'C' 1.6 GHz Pentium 4 1.5 GHz Athlon 'C' 1.2 GHz
Motherboard MSI MS-6341 Asus P4T Asus A7M266
Memory 256 MB Micron/Crucial PC2100 DDR-SDRAM 256 MB Samsung PC800 RDRAM 256 MB Micron/Crucial PC2100 DDR-SDRAM
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 2 Ultra Reference Card
64 MB, Driver 6.67 (Win98/Win2k)
Hard Drive IBM DTLA-307075, 75 GB, 7200 RPM
ATA100, FAT32 Win98, NTFS Win2k
DirectX 8.0a
Desktop Resolution for BAPCo's Sysmark 2000 and Webmark2001 1024x768x16x85
Webmark2001 MSIE 5.01
Timer Resolution 10 ms
Java enabled, 5.0
JVM 5.0.0.3310
JavaScript 1.3
Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.05
Cult3D 5.0.1.43
Flash 5.0.30.0
Microsoft Agent 2.00.0.3422
RealPlayer 6.0.9.357
Quicktime 4.1.1
NetMeeting 3.01
Windows Media Player 6.4.09.1109
Windows Media Services 4.1.00.3918
Quake 3 Arena Retail Version
no sound
Unreal Tournament Version 4.28 (patched)
no sound
MDK2 Downloadable Demo Version
T&L = On, trilinear filtering, high texture detail
Evolva Rolling Demo v1.2 Build 944
Standard command line = -benchmark
Bump Mapped command line = -benchmark -dotbump
Mercedes Benz Truck Racing Recommended GeForce2 Settings
Expendable Downloadable Demo Version
command line = -timedemo
3d Mark 2000 Build 335, Default Benchmark
SiSoft Sandra Standard Version 2000.3.6.4
Desktop Resolution for SPECviewperf 6.1.2 1280x1024x32x85
FlasK Settings Video Codec: DivX 3.11 alpha, Fast-Motion, keyframe every 10 seconds, compression 100, data rate 910 kbps
Audio Codec: audio not processed
Video Resolution: 720x480, 29.97 fps, interlaced
Resizing: Nearest Neighbor

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