Overclocking & The Test - Intel Pentium III 1.2GHz 0.13-micron Tualatin: The Celeron of the Future
Overclocking
You can probably guess that the 0.13-micron manufacturing process opens up the potential for the Pentium III to be a great overclocker. Our retail 1.2GHz processor was able to hit 1.44GHz (9 x 160MHz), unfortunately the board we tested on (ASUS TUSL2-C) would not allow voltage adjustments thus preventing us from getting a reliable set of benchmarks at 1.44GHz.
With voltage adjustments you should be able to hit 1.35 – 1.5GHz pretty easily with the 1.2GHz Pentium III.
The Test
Windows 2000 Test System | |||||||
Hardware | |||||||
CPU(s) | Intel Pentium III 1.2GHz | Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.3GHz | AMD Athlon-C "Thunderbird" 1.4GHz AMD Athlon-C "Thunderbird" 1.2GHz AMD Athlon MP "Palomino" 1.2GHz | ||||
Motherboard(s) | ASUS TUSL2-C | MSI 850 Pro2 | MSI K7T266 Pro | ||||
Memory | 256MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM (Micron -7E CAS2) | 256MB PC800 Samsung RDRAM | 256MB PC2400 Corsair DDR SDRAM (CAS 2) | ||||
Hard Drive | IBM Deskstar 30GB 75GXP 7200 RPM Ultra ATA/100 | ||||||
CDROM | Phillips 48X | ||||||
Video Card(s) | NVIDIA GeForce3 64MB DDR (default clock - 200/230 DDR) | ||||||
Ethernet | Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter | ||||||
Software | |||||||
Operating System | Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 2 | ||||||
Video Drivers | NVIDIA Detonator3 v12.41 @ 1024 x 768 x 16 @ 85Hz | ||||||
Benchmarking Applications | |||||||
Gaming | Quake III Arena v1.29f demo four | ||||||
Productivity | Winstone 2001 | ||||||
3D Graphics | 3D Studio MAX R4 |
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