System Setup and Notes
To find a comparison platform we went out and bought a Pentium-M 1.3GHz processor (Banias core, 1MiB L2) and a DFI 855GME-MGF, a mainboard which we reviewed back in early '05. The Banias P-M was released in 2003 and shares the same µPGA479 socket as some C7 variants. Testing the C7 on its own in the DFI would be cool, but we can't right at the moment.Digging out an old PCI GeForce FX 5200 (128MiB no less!) let us level the display playing field. Being DDR, the DFI was outfit with a single 512MiB DDR400 DIMM run at 200MHz, while the EPIA was fed by a 512MiB DDR2-533 module. Here are the specifics.
Hardware
|
|
|---|---|
| Processor(s) | VIA C7 'Esther', 1.3GHz, 13 x 100, 128KiB L2 Intel Pentium-M 'Banias', 1.3GHz, 13 x 100, 1024KiB L2 |
| Mainboard(s) | VIA EPIA CN13000 DFI 855GME-MGF |
| Memory | 512MiB DDR2-533 512MiB DDR-400 |
| Memory Timings | 5-5-5-12 @ 266MHz 2.5-3-3-8 @ 200MHz |
| Disk Drive | 160GB Seagate Barracuda ST3160812AS 7200.9 SATA2 |
| Graphics Card(s) | GeForce FX 5200 PCI (300/350) |
| Graphics Driver | NVIDIA ForceWare 91.31 |
| Operating System | Windows XP Professional, SP2, 32-bit |
[advert]
