Enlight's Bare-Bones AMD / KT133 System
Mid Sized Socket A Athlon Performance

By Dave Altavilla - November 10, 2000

 
We'll list our system specs again for you here.  The only items needed to complete our setup were the CPU, RAM,  a Hard Drive and a Graphics Card.

Enlight Bare-Bones Test System Just add a dash of video, CPU and RAM and you have a system!

Enlight 7238 Mid Tower ATX Case with 300W Power Supply, AMD Athlon 750 (T-Bird), Gigabyte GA-7ZX KT133 Motherboard, 128MB of Corsair PC133 SDRAM (get yours at Outside Loop!), IBM 15G 7200RPM ATA100 Drive, Hercules Prophet II 64 GeForce2 GTS 64MB, LiteOn 48X CD-ROM,
Windows 98SE, Direct X 7.0a, nVidia Reference Drivers version 6.31

Overclocking With The GigabyteGA-7ZX Surprise, surprise

We honestly didn't expect much in this area with the Gigabyte board.  Without CPU multiplier adjustments, Athlon over-clocking is usually uneventful.  However, Gigabyte's "EasyTune III" software saved the day!

Without the aid of CPU Core Voltage or Multiplier adjustments we were still able to successfully over-clock our T-Bird with full stability at 833MHz.  This particular T-Bird has been proven with multiplier adjustments at 1GHz. However, 833 was a lot better than we expected.

System Benchmarks - Enlight's Bare-Bones Setup The Athlon Shines

Here is our usual battery of SiSoft Sandra scores which will show you the synthetic side of things.

For a $100 CPU, bang for your buck with a T-Bird / KT133 based system is very enticing.  The memory bandwidth scores are also impressive and best most Intel platforms at the same clock speed.

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