Best Retro Operating System by comparison
We try to find the best Operating System for 2 different retro builds.
To do this, we take each system through Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista and 7 and compare the results with: Super PI, Sandra 99, CPU Mark 99, Cachemem, PC Mark 2002, 3D Mark 99, 3D Mark 2000, 3D Mark 2001, AquaMark 3, Unreal Gold, Unreal Tournament 2003, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Serious Sam The Second Encounter, Quake 3 Arena.
Build 1: Intel Pentium 4 2.4Ghz, Abit BH7, MSI FX 5900, 2x512Mb Ram, WD 250Gb, Sound Blaster Live CT 4620
Build 2: AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+, Abit AV8, Albatron 6600GT, 2x1Gb Ram, WD 250Gb, Sound Blaster Live CT 4620
Due to issues of the AV8 we introduce another socket 939 motherboard the DFI NF3 LanParty Ultra-D to replace the ABIT in the second build.
Sidequest: Measuring the frames lost in FRAPS and Afterburner for the graphics benchmarks and games and also trying to use affinity to decrease the impact of the frames measuring software.
Contents:
00:00 - Intro
01:26 - ABIT BH7, the components
04:45 - The software
05:21 - Pentium 4 Synthetic tests
06:54 - Pentium 4 Graphics benchmarks tests
07:17 - Pentium 4 Games tests
07:36 - Pentium 4 Conclusions
08:22 - ABIT AV8, the components
12:46 - Athlon64 X2 Synthetic tests
13:14 - Athlon64 X2 Graphics benchmarks tests
13:28 - Athlon64 Games tests
14:14 - Introducing the DFI LanParty NF3 Ultra-D
16:42 - Side quest - Frames lost to FRAPS and Afterburner
22:34 - Athlon64 X2 Synthetic tests (DFI)
23:07 - Athlon64 X2 Graphics benchmarks tests (DFI)
23:21 - Athlon64 X2 Games tests (DFI)
23:44 - The Issue
25:41 - Conclusions
27:32 - The future of the series
Other parts used: Abit's 3rd Eye, Scythe Mugen 2, Streacom BC1 open benchtable, Noctua NF-P12 fan.