The standard Win98 bus mastering driver was used with DMA transfer enabled. The hard disk was fully defragmented before each test. Each test ran thrice with the results averaged before being presented here.

Five different MaxFileCache values of vcache were used - 8MB, 16MB, 32MB, 64MB and unlimited. The benchmark suite included WinBench 99, Winstone 99, 3DMark 99, the Turok : Dinosaur Hunter timedemo, X Demo and the Half Life Torture timedemo.

Note that because Half Life timedemos will try to play the demo back at the speed that it was recorded at (20fps for Torture.dem), the maximum framerate achievable for Torture.dem is 20 fps. Thus, using Torture.dem to benchmark a system's performance is still valid as long as the results are all less than 20fps.