Performance

The CPU competition is made up of Pentium 4-1.8A GHz (512K), Pentium 4-1.6 and 1.8 GHz (256K) and Athlon XP 1600+ and 1900+ processors, each running on a high-performance PC2700 platform. Our Intel Pentium 4 system takes the popular ASUS P4S533 (SiS645DX), and the AMD platform uses the ASUS A7V333 (KT333) motherboard. Both are outfitted with 512-MB of high-end Crucial PC2700 DDR. As we are dealing with entry-level processors, these two rigs use a GeForce4 Ti 4200 128 MB card, which should provide a nice base for the 3D video tests.

Windows XP Pro is the operating system of choice, and our benchmark list includes a wide range of system and gaming tests. These include PCMark 2002, along with popular 3D game tests like Unreal Tournament 2003, 3DMark 2001SE, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Quake 3, Comanche 4 and Jedi Knight II. Our default game benchmark setting is 1024x768x32.

To illustrate both performance sides of the Celeron 2.0 GHz, we included the 3.0 GHz overclock in addition to the 2.0 GHz benchmarks in all of our performance tests.

Test Systems

General Settings:
Desktop Resolution: 1024x768
Color Depth: 16-bit
V-Sync: Disabled

SiS 645DX - ASUS P4S533 Motherboard
Processors: Intel Celeron 2.0 and 3.0 GHz, Pentium 4-1.8A, 1.8 & 1.6 GHz
Memory: 512 MB Crucial PC2700 DIMM
Motherboard: Asus P4S533
Motherboard chip set: SiS 645DX
Nvidia reference drivers: 40.72
Video Card: Nvidia Ti4200 128MB
Hard-Drive: Western Digital 40GB 7200RPM ATA100
IDE Interface: Ultra ATA100
CD/DVD: Panasonic DVD-ROM
Power Supply: Sparkle 400 Watt
Operating System: Windows XP Pro

VIA KT333 - ASUS A7V333: Athlon XP 1600+, Athlon XP 1900+
Memory: 512 MB Crucial PC2700 DIMM
Motherboard: Asus A7V333
Motherboard chip set: VIA KT333
Nvidia reference drivers: 40.72
Video Card: Nvidia Ti4200 128MB
Hard-Drive: Western Digital 40GB 7200RPM ATA100
IDE Interface: Ultra ATA/100
CD/DVD: Panasonic DVD-ROM
Power Supply: Sparkle 400 Watt
Operating System: Windows XP Pro

Quake III Arena Test Specifics
Version: 1.30 (retail)
V-Sync: Disabled
Sound Disabled
High Quality: Defaults

Return to Castle Wolfenstein Specifics:
Version 1.0
HQ Defaults
Checkpoint MP demo

3DMark 2001 Pro SE Specifics:
Version 1.0 Patched

PCMark 2002 Pro Test Specifics:
Build 100

Comanche 4 Benchmark:
No sound
1024x768 Defaults

Jedi Knight II
No sound
1024x768x32

Unreal Tournament Demo
1024x768x32
Flyby & Botmatch timedemo