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Date Posted: June 12, 2002
Test System Setup
All testing was done on the following three processor speeds:
| CPU: |
AMD Athlon 1GHz @ 1.75v - 51.4 Watts |
AMD Athlon 1.2GHz @ 1.94v - 75.8 Watts |
| Motherboard: |
Abit KT7-RAID BIOS 64
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| Memory: |
256MB PC-133 @ 2-2-2 |
| Hard Drives: |
20GB Quantum LM, 40GB Maxtor
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| Sound Card: |
Sound Blaster X-Gamer 5.1 |
| Operating System: |
Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 2 |
| Front Side Bus |
100MHz (200MHz DDR) |
| Video Cards: |
Hercules Prophet 4500 (Kyro II) |
| Coolers: |
Thermal Take Dragon Orb 3 (7000RPM); Global Win FOP-38 (7000RPM); Global Win CAK-II 38 (7500RPM); Global Win CAK-II "32" (5500RPM); Alpha PAL-8045T - 37CFM TT, 43CFM Sunon, 50CFM Sunon |
The Test system looked like this:
The tests were run directly after bootup, and then the processor was allowed to cool for approximately 15 minutes. Sisoft Sandra 2002's burn in test was used with 23 repetitions of CPU Arithmetic and Multi-Media benchmarks being run. Two tests were done for each speed, as follows, 1GHz then 1.2GHz then 1GHz and lastly 1.2GHz. If the temperatures were off more than a degree between both tests a third test was run and the two closest temperatures were used.
The Athlons used the socket thermometer to read the temperatures and the monitoring software used was MBM 5.1.0.2. Room temperature was measured using a Radio Shack Indoor/Outdoor Thermometer with Dual Display and was never more than 0.2°C off stated room temperatures.
Sound levels were measured using a Radio Shack Digital Sound Level Meter from 1 meter away from the heatsink/fan. The only other fan running at that time was the Enermax power supply fan.
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