Once the machine was running, with an install of Windows XP, I figured it was time for a few benchmarking. Here is what I was using as a test machine.

• EPoX EP-AT690G Pro Motherboard
• AMD 64 X2 3800+ CPU
• 1GB Patriot DDR2 Memory
• On-board X700 Radeon Video

Overclocking

Before running through all of the benchmarks, I decided to see what I could squeeze out of the machine in over-clocking. My AMD 64 X2 3800+ by default runs at 2.0 GHz. By massaging the CPU and DRAM voltage, I was able to get the core up to 2.6 GHz, running steadily. This is a decent over-clock. I once again take my hat off to EPoX, who make their boards with the hardware fan in mind. After successfully speeding up the machine, I was going to try to over-clock the onboard video, but the ATItool utility would not identify it.