| The Test System
| Processor |
633MHz Intel Pentium
III (FC-PGA) SL3QA |
| Motherboard |
ABIT BE6-II |
| RAM |
128MB Hitachi PC100
SDRAM |
| Graphics Card
Configuration |
Creative Labs Graphics
Blaster RIVA TNT2
150MHz core
180MHz RAM
nVidia RIVA TNT2 Win98 reference driver rev. 3.68
|
| Hard Disk |
40GB Maxtor DiamondMax
Plus 40
running at 66MB/s transfer rate using the HPT366
controller |
| Sound Card |
Creative Labs Sound
Blaster Live! Value |
Test Details
Before the start of the benchmark run, the hard disk was fully
defragmented and rearranged to provide completely unfragmented free space. After that, all tests were carried out non-stop and consecutively.
Between each test of one benchmark run, the hard disk's free space was
defragmented to ensure that the hard disk does not affect the results. All
benchmarks ran thrice with the averaged results shown here.
Test Files
The following groups of files were collected for the compression tests
:-
| Categories |
Total
Size (bytes) |
Assortment |
| BIOS & Drivers |
63,288,349 |
451 assorted files from
driver and BIOS packages including BIN, DLL, VXD,
INF, EXE, TXT and HLP files |
| Documents |
58,722,263 |
1,290 WRI, DOC and XLS
documents |
| Graphics - HC |
58,729,414
|
24 BMP pictures
|
| Graphics - PC |
59,670,854 |
1,466 JPEG and GIF pictures |
| Internet Files |
58,980,057 |
5,039 assorted files from
websites including HTML, JPEG and GIF files |
| Movies - AVI |
61,819,964 |
50 AVI movies |
| Movies - MPEG |
58,681,940 |
4 MPEG-1 movies |
| MP3 Songs |
59,056,459 |
18 MP3 songs |
| PDF Files |
58,182,914 |
97 PDF files |
| Text Files |
58,753,588 |
5,477 TXT files |
| Wave Files |
58,810,763 |
329 WAV files |
|
