MPC (Micron PC) Millennia 920i Creative Studio

MPC Millennia 920i Professional Review

by Mick Lockey

- WHAT'S HOT: The Millennia 920i, powered by a 3.2-GHz Pentium 4 processor and a gigabyte of dual-channel DDR400 SDRAM, earned a score of 127 on PC WorldBench 4, matching the performance of the similarly equipped Dell Dimension 8300, as well as being just a hair faster than other systems we've seen with a 3.06-GHz Pentium 4 and a similar amount of memory. Compared with systems using one of AMD's top-of-the-line Athlon XP CPUs, such as ABS's Ultimate M5 with a 2.2-GHz Athlon XP 3200+ and a gigabyte of DDR400 memory, the 920i's performance is about 10 percent slower. The 920i is well-suited to 3D graphics work. Our test system came with an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card (with 128MB of SDRAM), which delivered top frame rates in our tests at 1024 by 768 pixels. With more demanding resolutions of 1280 by 1024 and 1600 by 1200, its frame rates were near the top of the pack. And when playing a DVD movie and the game Return to Castle Wolfenstein, we saw bright, smooth image quality.