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Soltek SL-85DRS2 Motherboard Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Wednesday, February 06, 2002
Benchmarks - Real World
Gaming Performance
Serious Sam is a great looking game with really large maps and even with conservative settings
the game will tax even the fastest of computers. I used default fresh installed settings for this benchmark.
My personal favorite, Quake 3. I used the high-quality settings with the resolution set at 1024x768 32-bit color.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein is the latest game to be released using a modified Quake 3 engine. I used a multi-player demo called checkpoint
for this benchmark. If you wish to try it yourself the demo file can be downloaded from the following website http://www.3dcenter.de/downloads/rtcw-checkpoint.php
Content Creation Winstone 2002
The best of the best when it comes to real world benchmarks, this free program is available from
eTesting Labs and uses real programs to test the overall performance of your computer. These programs include: Adobe Photoshop 6,
Adobe Premiere 6.0, Macromedia Director 8.5, Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4, Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 7,
Netscape Navigator 6.01, and Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 5.0c
Business Winstone 2001
Business Winstone is quite similar to the Content Creation benchmark but uses programs that you would
most likely use in the office. These programs include Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Project 98, Lotus Notes R5,
NicoMak WinZip, Norton AntiVirus, and Netscape Communicator.
SPECviewperf
Here is a realworld benchmark to give us an idea as to how well the system will perform in a "workstation"
environment. For more information about this benchmark and what it can and cannot do please refer to this
page http://www.specbench.org/gpc/opc.static/viewperf.htm
