Powerleap PL-PII 433

The Slot-1 Test System Configuration was as follows:

• Intel Pentium II 300, Intel Pentium II 400, Intel Pentium II 450, Intel Celeron 266, Intel Celeron 300A, Intel Celeron 366, Intel Celeron 400, Powerleap PL-PII 433
• ABIT BX6 Revision 2
• 64MB PC100 SDRAM
• Western Digital Caviar AC35100 - UltraATA
• Matrox Millennium G200 AGP Video Card (8MB)
• Canopus Pure3D-2 Voodoo2 (12MB) - Glide Tests
• Canopus Spectra 2500 AGP TNT Video Card (16MB) - OpenGL/Direct3D tests

The benchmark suite consisted of the following applications:

• Ziff Davis Winstone 98 under Windows 98
• Ziff Davis Winstone 99 under Windows 98 & Windows NT4 SP4
• Quake 2 v3.20 using demo1.dm2 and Brett "3 Fingers" Jacobs Crusher.dm2 demo
• Naturally Speaking Professional Speech Recognition Software
• Microsoft Netshow Encoder
• Adobe Photoshop 5.02
• Dispatch by Rage Software w/ SSE support

All Winstone tests were run at 1024 x 768 x 16 bit color, all gaming performance tests were run at 800 x 600 x 16 bit color.

For the in-depth gaming performance tests Brett "3 Fingers" Jacobs Crusher.dm2 demo was used to simulate the worst case scenario in terms of Quake 2 performance, the point at which your frame rate will rarely drop any further. In contrast, the demo1.dm2 demo was used to simulate the ideal situation in terms of Quake 2 performance, the average high point for your frame rate in normal play. The range covered by the two benchmarks can be interpreted as the range in which you can expect average frame rates during gameplay.

For complete benchmarks of the Celeron 433 used in the PL-PII 433, visit AnandTechs Intel Celeron 433 Review. As soon as Powerleap supplies AnandTech with final revisions of the PL-PII hardware, Dual Processor tests will be added to the benchmark suite displayed here.

If you happen to have a motherboard that supports the 75MHz FSB, the Powerleap PL-PII 433 overclocks beautifully to 488MHz. For owners of anything slower than a Pentium II 300, youll notice some performance increase when migrating to the PL-PII 433, however not too much if all youre going to be running are business applications such as word processing and spread sheet applications.