Benchmarking/Quake 3

In Quake III Arena the story was pretty much the same, incredible performance.

All benchmarks were performed with the standard high quality settings, the only thing I changed was the resolution. These benchmarks were taken by running both demos (demo001, demo002) twice and averaging the scores.

Quake III Arena (retail ver1.0)

Although I still play at 800x600 (online) at you can see that 1024x768x32 is very playable.

Conclusion

For a reasonable price (Currently 399.99 source pricewatch.com) you too can own an overclockable behemoth. I can not make any claims to the success/fail rates of the 600e @ 800Mhz. I can however say that with very little effort, mine is running rock solid. The 600e could very well be the next 300a/366. My albeit limited experience with this processor says all signs point to yes. Another thing to consider is that the 600e officially supports smp processing (the 500e/550e do not), another definite bonus especially with windows 2000 pro only a few short weeks away.

by Aaron 'SINISTER' Harmon

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