Soltek SL-85DR-C Motherboard Review

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. To do your own Serious Sam demo benchmark bring down the console and type "dem_bProfile=1" (w/out quotes), exit the console then choose a demo from the main menu. When the demo is complete pull down the console again to see the score.

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

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 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.

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