Winstone
Performance
For this
benchmark, Winstone 99 and Content Creation Winstone 2000 have been used to test
the overall performance of the test bed setup. Winstone 99 (Business Winstone
99) v1.2 is used to test the overall business performance of the computer system
by using applications such as MS Office 97, Lotus Smartsuite 97, etc. Content
Creation Winstone 2000 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that
measures a PC's overall performance when running today's Windows-based Internet
content creation applications. The test focuses on top-selling Internet content
creation applications.
Each test was run 3 times with the result being
the average value of the 3 test runs. Higher numbers indicate better
performance.
These performance figures are
certainly good for the given hardware setup. Performance wise, this board should
not be a problem.
Overclocking and
Stability
As the CPU used in this review was a Celeron 400, there
isn't much one can do in terms of overclocking the CPU. As it is the multiplier,
which is locked on all Intel processors now, is quite high on the Celeron (6x).
So running it at default rate of 400Mhz would be at a 66Mhz front side bus
speed.
I was able to go all the way
up to an 83Mhz FSB speed which results in a 500Mhz overclock. At this speed, the
system was very stable. At a 100Mhz bus speed, which would result in a 600Mhz
overclock, I could not even get to the POST. There are 6 1000uf capacitors
around the Socket 370 interface and only 5 1000uf capacitors are in the Slot 1
vicinity. Most motherboard manufacturers include at LEAST 6-7 1500uf capacitors
instead of the 1000uf capacitors used in this case. It is certainly pretty
surprising that the system was stable at 83Mhz despite the low number of low
rated capacitors. And that too the stock Intel fan/heatsink combo was
used.
There is an option to change the voltage but it is quite limited.
By default, the jumpers are set to auto-detect CPU Vcore voltage in the range of
1.3V-2.05. You can change it so that the range will be 1.3V-3.5V. Of course,
this will make no difference as the voltage is always set to auto-detect. The
only type of "voltage bumping" you can do is through another jumper which
increases the Vcore voltage by 0.05V. And nothing more than
that.
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