*Resurrected an old Pentium III Tualatin*

Put together some P3 Tualatin PC parts and did some tests. :)

Compared it to an Acer Aspire One ZG5 netbook from 2008.





How will a high-end Pentium III perform relative to an Atom?



P3 Tualatin system

• PIII-S Tualatin processor (1.4 GHz, FSB 133 MHz, 512 KB L2 cache)


• 3 x 512 MB PC133 SDRAM


• AGP ATI Radeon 9200SE graphics


• PCI 3 Com LAN card


• PCI USB 2.0 card


• PCI SATA card connected to 80 GB SATA hard disk

The fastest Pentium III CPU







The motherboard allows overclocking up to FSB 150 MHz (150 x 10.5 = 1.57 GHz)





Acer Aspire One ZG5 netbook (not the SSD model)

• Atom N270 processor (1.6 GHz, FSB 533 MHz, 512 KB L2 cache)


• 1.5 GB DDR2 RAM


• Intel GMA 950


• 120 GB hard disk

The benchmarks (drum roll)



Hyperpi 1M (single thread)





Atom N270 is faster by abt 30 sec.

Pls note that the Atom's speed is 1600, not 800 MHz.

The Intel Speedstep feature downclocked the CPU before I could take a snapshot.





Even when the Tualatin is OCed to 1.57 GHz, it still can't beat the Atom :( .





3D Mark 2000



*Netbook can't run 3D Mark 2000.





3D Mark 2001









3D Mark 2003









x264 HD benchmark 4.0

Quote:

PIII Tualatin @ 1400 MHz Pass 1 ------ encoded 1442 frames, 5.98 fps, 3908.74 kb/s encoded 1442 frames, 6.01 fps, 3908.74 kb/s encoded 1442 frames, 6.03 fps, 3908.74 kb/s encoded 1442 frames, 6.05 fps, 3908.74 kb/s Pass 2 ------ encoded 1442 frames, 1.25 fps, 3962.60 kb/s encoded 1442 frames, 1.25 fps, 3962.60 kb/s encoded 1442 frames, 1.26 fps, 3962.60 kb/s encoded 1442 frames, 1.26 fps, 3962.60 kb/s

Quote:

PIII Tualatin @ 1575 MHz Pass 1 ------ encoded 1442 frames, 6.63 fps, 3908.74 kb/s encoded 1442 frames, 6.68 fps, 3908.74 kb/s encoded 1442 frames, 6.65 fps, 3908.74 kb/s encoded 1442 frames, 6.71 fps, 3908.74 kb/s Pass 2 ------ encoded 1442 frames, 1.42 fps, 3962.60 kb/s encoded 1442 frames, 1.42 fps, 3962.60 kb/s encoded 1442 frames, 1.42 fps, 3962.60 kb/s encoded 1442 frames, 1.42 fps, 3962.60 kb/s

Quote:

Atom N270 Pass 1 ------ encoded 1442 frames, 9.29 fps, 3909.88 kb/s encoded 1442 frames, 9.28 fps, 3909.87 kb/s encoded 1442 frames, 9.29 fps, 3909.85 kb/s encoded 1442 frames, 9.27 fps, 3909.88 kb/s Pass 2 ------ encoded 1442 frames, 1.57 fps, 3962.17 kb/s encoded 1442 frames, 1.56 fps, 3962.56 kb/s encoded 1442 frames, 1.56 fps, 3962.29 kb/s encoded 1442 frames, 1.56 fps, 3962.66 kb/s

Web browsing and Youtube

Browsing the Yahoo Singapore homepage was slow. The CPU usage frequently spiked to 100%.



Even when OCed to 1.57 GHz, Tualatin can play streaming Youtube videos at only 240p or lower :eek: . It would stutter (sometimes with pixellated graphics) and max. CPU usage at 360p and above. :(



The Acer ZG5 Netbook had no problems playing Youtube videos at 480p.



Playing back videos from hard disk

Even with MPC-HC video player and Core AVC and overclock to 1.57 GHz, 720p h264 videos were totally unwatchable on the Tualatin PC. Video quality was so bad and choppy you could call it seconds per frame rather than frames per second.



With MPC-HC video player and Core AVC, the Acer netbook can play 720p h264 videos smoothly, with very few dropped or pixellated frames.

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