System Setup and benchmarking notes
Here's a quick rundown of the test system should you wish to compare benchmark results with your own.
- Intel Pentium4 1600MHz S478 Northwood CPU
- VIA VPSD P4X333 P4B-UR run in DDR333 Mode
- MSI 645E MAX-LRU SiS645DX Motherboard run in DDR333
- ABIT IT7 I845E MAX run at DDR266 mode
Common components
- Asus Geforce4 Ti 4600 clocked at stock speeds (300/660)
- 256MB Samsung PC2700 run at strictest timings (common for all three DDR motherboards)
- 2x120GB Western Digital 120JB 7200rpm hard drive with 8MB cache.
- Liteon 40x12x40 CDRW
- Pioneer DVR-104 DVD ReWriter
- Samcheer 420w PSU
- 21" Sony G500 FD monitor
- D-Link FE530TX NIC
- Sonic Fury Soundcard
- Lian-Li PC60 Aluminium Case
Software
- Windows XP Professional Build 2600.xpclient.010817-1148
- Detonator XP 28.32 drivers
- Sisoft Sandra 2002 Professional
- Pifast v41
- Lame v3.91 MP3 encoding with Razor-Lame 1.15 front-end
- XMpeg 4.2A DVD encoding, DivX 5.0 CODEC
- Ocuk SETI benchmark
- 3DMark 2000
- 3DMark 2001SE
- Comanche 4 benchmark
- Serious Sam 2 Demo
- Quake 3 v1.30
I'll be comparing the P4X333 to both the SiS645DX and I845E chipsets at 100 FSB, mainly due to the fact that I could not get the P4X333 to work at 133FSB irrespective of options used.
All benchmarks were conducted at 1024x768x32 100Hz with vertical sync' disabled. Benchmarks were run 3 times consecutively, an average score was taken. All three systems were configured for maximum performance.
I fully expect the P4X333 to put up a decent showing at 100FSB due to it directly supporting PC2700 and even PC3200 memory out-of-the-box. I tried using the 200MHz memory option and although I could boot-in fine, I couldn't achieve any kind of real stability. Therefore, I've gone with PC2700 memory at the strictest possible timings including the 1T memory command.
