We tested the P3-450 with the most CPU intensive benchmarks we possess, including several from the gaming environment. For comparative reasons, we also included results on the same tests from a P2-450 CPU, and the P3-450 itself overclocked to 504MHz as well as 560MHz.

In order to ensure that the gaming results were limited only by CPU performance and not by the fill-rate limit of a particular video accelerator, we tested with Quantum3D's powerful X-24 Voodoo2 SLI card. All games were tested at a resolution of 800x600x16bpp to further ensure that the video accelerator wasn't the limiting factor in the testing process.

Here's a more in-depth look at the test machines:

Test Systems (2):
ABIT BX6 v2.0 (Slot-1 - Intel(r) 440BX)
128MB SDRAM
Goldstar 128MB PC-100 SDRAM
ATi Rage Fury 32MB AGP 2D/3D Accelerator
Quantum3D X-24 Voodoo2 SLI PCI 3D Accelerator
Seagate Medalist Pro 9.1 GB 7200rpm UDMA HD
Diamond Monster Sound MX300 3D PCI Sound Card
Hitachi 40X IDE CD-ROM
Win95 OSR 2.1

Test Conditions and Specifications:
All tests were run a total of three times with the results averaged to determine final score. VSync was OFF for all video tests, allowing maximum frame rate performance. The Quantum3D X-24 Voodoo2 SLI card was set to operate at a 100MHz core/memory speed and was utilized for all 3D benchmark results.

Benchmarks: 800 x 600 (3D) - 1024 x 768 (3D) - Synthetic - Synthetic SSE