Chip-Con's Prometeia Cooling Unit

Author : Martyn Date : 2002

...Product	'Prometeia' Cooling System
...Manufacturer	Chip-Con
...Supplier	Chip-Con
...Price	475 Euros ex VAT

 

 

 

Part Eight: Gaming Benchmarks

Although aging, Quake 3 still shows the relative bandwidth and gaming performance we can expect from this CPU. Two runs are included; firstly low details at 640x480 to ensure the CPU is taking the workload and the more standard 1024x768 Max' Details.

Quake 3 Arena Time Demo 1	Pentium 4 2.53GHz@ 3.01GHz	Pentium 4 2.53GHz
640x480 Lowest Quality	316.4	268.3
1024x768 Highest Quality	275.4	243.4

Quake 3 is very sensitive to frequency increases and this is displayed perfectly here. Remember the memory and FSB is also overclocked which is partly why we such a good increase over both resolutions.

3DMark 2001 SE, and 3DMark 2000 great DX8 and DX7 based benchmarks and another great indicator of system bandwidth and overall performance. I expected great results here also...

3DMark 2000	Pentium 4 2.53GHz@ 3.01GHz	Pentium 4 2.53GHz
640x480 Lowest Quality
1024x768 Highest Quality

 

3DMark 2001 SE	Pentium 4 2.53GHz@ 3.01GHz	Pentium 4 2.53GHz
640x480 Lowest Quality
1024x768 Highest Quality

The results speak for themselves in these two excellent benchmarks. The already super-fast 2.53GHz can be pushed to amazing speeds thanks to the extreme cooling offered by Chip-Con's Prometeia system. Just how fast can we in 3DMark 2001? Only time will tell but I doubt we have seen anywhere near the top scores just yet.

We move to our final demonstration of power, Jedi Knight II, on the next page...

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