First post, by Darkman
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So I was running some benchmarks on a 1Ghz Coppermine board I have, its a motherboard from a Dell Dimension 4100 and is essentially a Dell branded D815EEA board. the board has 512MB CL2 SDRAM and a Voodoo 5500 GPU, it uses the i815E chipset.
the weird thing is that in games its almost matching up to a Gigabyte GA-6VTXD dual 1.4Ghz board (these are the 512k versions) with 1.5GB of SDRAM , the same GPU and a SCSI U160 hard drive. The board itself uses the VIA 133A chipset.
The tests were done in Windows 2000 SP4/ DX8.1 (in which case the second CPU would be runnning background tasks at least). In Quake 3 , the 1Ghz system got 72fps (1024X768 , everything on high) , while the dual tualatin got 73.2 at the same settings. UT99 got about 67.3fps , the dual tualatin at 69. MDK2 is the same at 62.4 vs 64 frames. Even 3DMark01's results were rather close at 1711 vs 2080. The only game which showed any noticable improvement was Return to Castle Wolfenstien , at 32 vs 39 fps
one would expect somewhat more impressive results than this from a Tualatin system , even on the V5500 (maybe even more so given how CPU bound this card can be).
Is there something about the GA-6VTXD which hampers its performance that much? is it a matter of the VIA chipset vs the Intel one? It makes me wonder if this DELL board will take one of the modded Tualatins (which would turn it into a real screamer of a machine). Both machines were running the same drivers too (minus the chipset ones of course)
Any thoughts or explanations for this? (also regarding the possibility of a modded Tualatin)