The Test
This review wasn't intended to be a massive CPU roundup, rather a comparison of 700MHz+ Athlon processors amongst themselves as well as to their Pentium III counterparts. For more Athlon performance scores visit our previous Athlon reviews.
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Windows 98 SE Test System |
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Hardware |
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CPU(s) |
Intel
Pentium III 750 |
Intel
Pentium III 800
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AMD
Athlon 800
AMD Athlon 750 AMD Athlon 700 |
| Motherboard(s) |
AOpen
AX6BC Pro-II
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AOpen
AX6C
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Gigabyte
GA-7IX
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| Memory |
128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM |
128MB
PC800 Samsung RDRAM
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128MB
PC133 Corsair SDRAM
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| Hard Drive |
IBM Deskstar DPTA-372050 20.5GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA 66 |
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| CDROM |
Phillips 48X |
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| Video Card(s) |
NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB (default clock - 120/166) |
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| Ethernet |
Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter |
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Software |
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Operating System |
Windows 98 SE |
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| Video Drivers |
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Benchmarking Applications |
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| Gaming |
GT
Interactive Unreal Tournament 4.04 UTbench.dem |
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| Synthetic |
Distributed.net
RC5 Client CSC Cracking Test
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| Productivity |
BAPCo
SYSMark 98
BAPCo SYSMark 2000 Ziff Davis Content Creation Winstone 2000 |
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Windows NT SP6 Test System |
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Hardware |
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CPU(s) |
Intel
Pentium III 750 |
Intel
Pentium III 800
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AMD
Athlon 800
AMD Athlon 750 AMD Athlon 700 |
| Motherboard(s) |
AOpen
AX6BC Pro-II
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AOpen
AX6C
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Gigabyte
GA-7IX
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| Memory |
128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM |
128MB
PC800 Samsung RDRAM
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128MB
PC133 Corsair SDRAM
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| Hard Drive |
IBM Deskstar DPTA-372050 20.5GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA 66 |
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| CDROM |
Phillips 48X |
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| Video Card(s) |
NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB (default clock - 120/166) |
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| Ethernet |
Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter |
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Software |
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Operating System |
Windows NT SP6 |
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| Video Drivers |
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Benchmarking Applications |
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| Professional |
3D
Studio MAX R2
SPECviewperf 6.1.1 |
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| Productivity |
BAPCo
SYSMark 98
Ziff Davis Content Creation Winstone 2000 |
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xrror - Friday, December 12, 2014 - link
The thing to remember during this era is that coppermine P3's (or at least, any P3 with integrated cache) were pretty much stupid expensive, and unobtanium to get. While with the Athlon 800 you could actually buy one and not be on a wait list for 2 months.Also ugh, RAMBUS and 820 were just way too much money. BX @ 133 with a video card that could handle it - which Geforce 2 era cards started to be built for that was where it was at if you were Intel. Or you just waited like everyone else for the Athlon Thunderbird to come out... =)