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Date |
: Mar 6th, 2002 |
| Category |
: CPU |
| Manufacturer |
: VIA |
| Author |
: Jin-Wei Tioh |
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Let's see how the C3 holds up under our barrage of tests...
| Platform
Information |
| CPUs |
VIA C3 733MHz
Intel Pentium III 733MHz
|
| Motherboard |
AOpen AX3S Plus |
| Cooler |
Thermosonic
ThermoEngine |
| Interface
Material |
Arctic
Silver II |
| Memory |
2
x 128MB PC-150 CAS 3 (Kingmax)
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| Hard
Drive |
Seagate
U10 10GB 5400rpm U-ATA 66 |
| CD-ROM
Drive |
AOpen
36x |
| Network |
RealTek
8139A |
| Video
Card/s |
ABIT
Siluro MX400 64MB (default clock - 200/166) |
| Operating
System |
Windows
2000 Professional (Service Pack 2) |
| DirectX
Version |
8.0a |
| Video
Drivers |
4.13.01.1241
(ver 12.41) |
| Benchmarks |
ZDLabs WinBench 99
ZD Business Winstone 2001
ZD Content Creation Winstone 2001
SiSoft Sandra 2001te Professional
3DMark 2001 Pro
Quake III Arena (Retail) - demo001
Max Payne (Retail) |
| Stability Tests |
FreeBSD 4.3 - makeworld
StabilityTest + HotCPU Lite
Ultra-X RAM Stress Test
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For the following results, both the VIA C3 and Intel Pentium III were run on the AX3S Plus using standard parameters (ie. no overclocking) at 733MHz (5.5 x 133 FSB), CAS 2.
| Testbed |
Stability
Results |
Methodology |
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| Processor |
Crashes |
makeworld
(FreeBSD) |
Stability
Test
+
HotCPU
Lite
|
RAM
Stress Test |
| VIA
C3 733 (AOpen AX3S Plus / i815E / 133MHz / SDRAM) |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| Intel
Pentium III 733 (AOpen AX3S Plus / i815E / 133MHz / SDRAM) |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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