what benchmark software did you use? I don't think it works. If you want a
reliable number, the best way is to run a game (eg Q3) at low resolution.
Each benchmark software has its own weakness, many benchmark numbers are
unfair. eg 3DMark 2000 doesn't like AMD cpu, even it claims supporting on
AMD line. SysMark 2000 doesn't have ability to show you PC's gaming ability.
ZDnet benchmark doesn't seem to be useful at all. The list goes on and on,
you must run multiple benchmarks to give a fair result, I prefer run
benchmarks with at least one game (Q3 preferred), I'm still trying to find
the best game to test Direct3D, but Q3 is the only one for openGL. If anyone
out there knows a game is hard enough to test Direct3D ability, please let
me know (the game must use as much DX feature as possible).

My 2nd question is what mobo do you use, could you give a bit more details
on the celeron system? there is no way that celeron 750 (7.5x100) perform
the same as 500 (7.5x66), if you get same result from those two
configurations, one explanation is the benchmark software is piece of
useless junk, the other explanation would be that your mobo doesn't allow
overclock, it only operate CPU at detected speed, no matter what BIOS
setting you play around. The third explanation is not what I want to see,
that is if everything else is too bad that even a better CPU couldn't help
to bring benchmark up.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Demetri Kolokotronis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 12:11 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Benchmarks


> Following Qian's post I changed my newly assembled Celeron 500 system
> from 5x100, CPU multiplier x bus speed, to 7.5x66. Benchmark remains
> virtually the same. This maybe as good as I can get, but it still is a
> surprise that my Celeron 500 has a benchmark of 88, while benchmarked
> Pent II 450 has a score of 204.8.
>
> Demetri Kolokotronis
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