#Pentium vs. All
Hey John, Here's what we spoke about….not quite as originally
thought.
We did some more exact CPU tests with 3DStudio 3… these tests were
performed with more accuracy than earlier tests. The guy who makes
all of our systems uses ASUS Motherboards (you may not know the name,
but they are extremely high quality and blindingly fast.. they've
beaten Micronics in all tests. Any good clone maker should be
familiar with ASUS).
Here were the contenders:
System #1 – Gateway 486/DX2 66 Vesa Local Bus
32 MB Ram (70ns)
2 Western Digital Cavier 384MB Hard Drives IDE
(We just moved these 2 drives between each of the
systems being tested to ensure good comparisons)
256k Cache
Very simple configurations with EMM386.SYS and a mouse!
System #2 – Omni-Digital (Our Engineer's Clone) 486/DX4 100
16 MB Ram (70ns)
2 Western Digital Cavier 384MB Hard Drives IDE
(We just moved these 2 drives between each of the
systems being tested to ensure good comparisons)
256k Cache
System #3 – Omni-Digital Pentium P/60 PCI
16 MB Ram (70ns)
2 Western Digital Cavier 384MB Hard Drives IDE
256k Cache
System #4 – Omni-Digital Pentium P/66 PCI
16 MB Ram (70ns)
2 Western Digital Cavier 384MB Hard Drives IDE
256k Cache
The Test: We loaded BIRDSHOW.3DS (you should have this in your
MESHES Directory) We turned off DISPLAY and used NONE as graphics
display. We left all other settings alone. Shadows on, Anti-A on,
Forced two-sided off, metal shading mode, mapping on, filter maps on,
motion blur on (of no consequence here), auto-reflect on, etc. We
then rendered at 640×480 TGA compressed to disk with NO display!!
Here are the results:
System #1 01:43
System #2 01:08
System #3 01:00
System #4 00:54
If you have any questions, give me a ring at 404-355-1662 or leave me
EMAIL. Hope this helps you guys trying to get the most inexpensive
systems while remaining fast enough. Remember ALL systems by ALL
manufacturers will differ. I think that you will find that these are
some of the fastest times (minus the Gateway <g>) for the respective
systems, on the market. If you are looking for a good non-no-name
clone.. my recommendation would be to go with the new ZEOS Pantera
(sp?) P-66. Just don't expect a lot of service! I'll let you guys
know about the P-90 when my engineer gets them (be careful of buying
these from anyone right now!!! I heard (BUT I DON'T KNOW… JUST
HEARD!!!! <g>) that the FCC isn't too happy with these melting demons
yet. But they'll be here soon enough…and we'll grab one as soon as
they're available and de-bugged. Talk to you guys later.
-Robert Taylor
Taylor McCormick Graphics