Test System Setup

Test System

Intel Coppermine P3-700E@700MHz(7.0x100MHz)
Abit Slocket III FC-PGA to Slot-1 adapter
Abit BE-6 II motherboard
Micron 128MB PC133 SDRAM

Western Digital Caviar ATA-66 hard drive

NVIDIA GeForce 2
Driver version: Detonator 5.22

Windows 98 SE

Benchmarks

Quake 3 Retail - 640x480 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 800x600 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1024x768 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1280x1024 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1600x1200 Fastest, Normal, High Quality

Various Others

SiSoft Hard Drive Tests
Winbench99 Business Disk
Winbench99 High End Disk
Winstone99

Notes

This may seem like it is a bit of a rehash from our previous WinME article, but we felt it would be beneficial to add a little more data, as well as shed some more light on the topic of upgrading/updating. We have included general desktop performance numbers. We also thought it might be interesting to see the performance of a system that was upgraded from Win98SE to WinME, as compared to stand-alone installations of 98SE and ME. The WinME upgrade tag you will see is a system that was updated from Win98SE to WinME.