System Setup

Test System Setup

AMD Athlon 700MHz
AMD Athlon 750MHz
AMD Athlon 800MHz
AMD Athlon 850MHz
AMD Athlon 900MHz
AMD Athlon 1GHz

ABIT KT7, FiringSquad custom BIOS
VIA 4-in-1 drivers ver. 4.23

128MB Mushkin PC133 High-Quality CAS2 SDRAM

Absolute Multimedia Outrageous GeForce DDR
Driver version Detonator 6.18

15GB IBM Deskstar 75GXP ATA/100 Hard Drive

Windows 98 SE

Benchmarks

Winbench 99 1.1
CPUMark99
FPUMark
Business Disk Winmarks
High-End Disk Winmarks

SiSoft Sandra 2000 CPU tests - Dhrystone, Whetstone, MMX, SSE, HD, CPU/memory, FPU/memory tests

Content Creation 2000

Winstone 99

3DMark2000

Unreal Tournament - 640x480x32
Unreal Tournament - 800x600x32
Unreal Tournament - 1024x7680x32
Unreal Tournament - 1280x1024x32

Quake 3 Retail - 640x480 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 800x600 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1024x768 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1280x960 Fastest, Normal, High Quality

MDK2 - 640x480x32
MDK2 - 800x600x32
MDK2 - 1024x768x32
MDK2 - 1280x1024x32

Notes

We've practically included the entire Athlon family in this review, the only processor missing is the Athlon 950MHz. This should give you a good idea of which processor offers the best performance given your budget.

We debated long and hard on the video card. In the end the GeForce DDR was used due to its cost. We considered using a GeForce 2 GTS to better highlight the performance differences at higher resolutions, but figured you'd appreciate us using a video card you're more likely to afford.

If you'd like to compare the Athlon 700MHz numbers to the Duron at 700MHz, please refer back to our ASUS A7V review. While we realize a different motherboard and driver set was used in that review, it should give you an idea of the performance difference between the Athlon and Duron at the same clock speed, as well as Duron numbers at 998MHz.