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AMD's Athlon 1400 and Duron 950

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Benchmark Setup

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Athlon 266 MHz FSB System
MotherboardMSI K7 Master MS-6341, BIOS 1.1
Memory256 MB Infineon PC2100 DDR SDRAM 8-8-5-2-2-2-2
Athlon 133 MHz FSB System
MotherboardAsus A7V133, BIOS 1005A
Memory256 MB Micron PC133 SDRAM 2-2-2
Pentium 4 System
MotherboardAsus P4T, BIOS 1005 beta 1
Memory256 MB Samsung PC800 RDRAM
Other System Components
Hard DriveIBM DTLA-307030, 7200 RPM, ATA100
Graphics CardNVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra, Driver 12.40
Operating SystemsMicrosoft Windows 98 SEMicrosoft Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 2
Screen Resolution1024x768x16x851280x1024x32x85 for SPECviewperf 6.1.2

Benchmark Results

You will see that we ran a very large number of benchmarks, which should give you a very good idea of the performance of Athlon 1000-1400, also in comparison to Pentium 4. We did not include any of the previous Durons, so that Duron 950 is directly up against the Athlon crowd.