AMD's Latest Thunderbird: SocketA Athlon at 1.1 GHz

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New Price-Performance Evaluation Added

For the first time I decided to include price-performance charts. The prices were taken from PriceWatch on August 28, 2000.

Test Setup

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Hardware Setup
SocketA Platform for AMD Athlon and Duron ProcessorsAsus A7V, BIOS 1003 final
Socket370 platform for Intel Pentium III and Celeron processorsAsus CUSL2, BIOS 1002beta2
Memory128 MB Wichmann WorkX PC133 SDRAM CL2, setting 2-2-2-5/7
Hard Drive for Windows 98 TestsIBM DTLA-307030 ATA100 IDE, 30 GB, FAT32
Hard Drive for Linux TestSeagate ST320430A ATA66 IDE, 19 GB, ext2
Graphics Card for Sysmark2000, Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament and 3D Studio Max 2NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS Reference CardCore Clock 200 MHz, Memory Clock 333 MHz, Driver 6.16 Detonator 3
Graphics Card for SPECviewperfNVIDIA Quadro2 Reference CardCore Clock 230 MHz, Memory Clock 400 MHz, Driver 6.16 Detonator 3
Software Setup
Windows VersionWindows98SE, 4.10.2222A
Windows Resolution for Sysmark20001024x768x16x85
Windows Resolution for SPECviewperf1280x1024x32x85
Linux VersionSuSE Linux 6.4, Kernel 2.2.14, THG benchmarking kernel, gcc 2.95.2
Quake 3 ArenaRetail version
Unreal TournamentVersion 4.28 (patched)
SPECviewperfRev. 6.1.2
3D Studio MaxRev. 2
Thomas Pabst