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April
17, 2000 - By Dave
Altavilla
We
set up Intel's new CPU in a base system
that is also comprised of their latest
Motherboard Chipset, the i820.
Also utilized was the next generation
platform memory of choice for Intel,
RAMBUS. Among other things, this
system supports AGP4X and UDMA 66 EIDE
Drive Interfaces. Here are the
specs for our test-bed.
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| HotHardware's
Test System |
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for speed |
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Full
Tower ATX Case w/ 300W PS,
Pentium !!! 800EB,
Soyo
SY-6ICA i820 Motherboard (review
soon),
128MB of 800MHz (400MHz. DDR) Techworks
RDRAM, WD Expert AC418000 7200 RPM ATA66
Hard Drive, Elsa Erazor X2 AGP , Kenwood
72X CDROM, Win
98SE, NVidia 5.13 Drivers, DirectX 7.0a
As
you can see, the P3 800EB we are testing
is sitting in the lap of luxury with all
of the latest peripherals supporting it,
within our test system. With all
of these high end parts, the system
should perform quite well as a
whole. Let's find out.
SiSoft
Sandra Benchmark @ 800MHz and 900MHz.
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all images for full viewing
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CPU
Benchmark @ 800MHz.
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Memory
Benchmark @ 800MHz.
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Multi-Media
Benchmark @ 800MHz.
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CPU
Benchmark @ 900MHz.
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Memory
Benchmark @ 900MHz.
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Multi-Media
Benchmark @ 900
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The
Sandra tests are basic performance
numbers for over all CPU Speed,
Multi-Media and Memory Subsystem
performance. These scores show the
800EB to surpass the 600MHz. AMD Athlon
by a wide margin. That was to be
expected of course since the clock rate
alone, of our test chip, is 200MHz.
faster than the reference AMD chip used
by SiSoft's Sandra in these
charts. As you can see, we were
also able to overclock the 800EB to
900MHz. This was achieved by
setting the Front Side Bus Speed to
150MHz. and keeping the multiplier at
6X. Our chip was indeed stable at
this speed with the excellent stock
cooling solution that Intel provided. You
may or may not be able to achieve these
results from a retail chip but your
chances are good. Of course
overclocking your processor voids your
warranty as well, so you are on your own
here (but you knew that).
Finally,
also of note are the excellent memory
scores garnered by our i820/RAMBUS/P3-800EB
combo. Overall, these are great
numbers that are sure to please even the most
hungry power user.
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We then set
out to perform more practical business
application and gaming benchmarks.
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