AMD Athlon 800MHz
Gigabyte 7VX KX133 Motherboard
128 PC100 SDRAM
Sound Blaster Live! Value
3Com 10/100 NIC

Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS 32MB DDR RAM (200/333MHz)
ELSA GLADIAC 32MB DDR RAM (200/333MHz)
NVIDIA GeForce 64MB DDR (120/300MHz)
ATI Rage Fury MAXX 64MB SDR RAM (125/143MHz)

Following what has now become Sharky Extreme tradition, we'll kick off the benchmarks with Quake III, our favorite real-world measure of OpenGL performance. Tested in Normal, High Quality, and MAX graphics modes, we see a balanced mix of performance and visual quality.

Under "Normal" quality settings, the GeForce2 cards perform almost identically. For the sake of comparison, we've included the scores for NVIDIA's 64MB GeForce board, which suffers at 1600x1200 due to lower bandwidth and a third of the fillrate possessed by its newer brother.