AMD's New Duron: Now at 1GHz

Name: AMD's New Duron: Now at 1GHz
Item: AMD's New Duron: Now at 1GHz
Author: Anand Lal Shimpi

by Anand Lal Shimpi on August 22, 2001 7:23 PM EST

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The Test

We chose a few different setups to compare the Duron; most of them in similar price areas (or they will be by next week). Before running the Duron 1GHz tests we performed a complete reinstall of the OS to ensure proper detection and enablement of SSE support for the processor.

Windows 2000 Test System
Hardware
CPU(s)	Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz	AMD Athlon-C "Thunderbird" 1.0GHz AMD Duron "Morgan" 1.0GHz AMD Duron "Spitfire" 950MHz
Motherboard(s)	ABIT BL7-RAID (i845) VIA Reference P4X266	ECS K7S5A
Memory	256MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM (Micron -7E CAS2) 256MB DDR266 Crucial SDRAM (Micron CAS2) 256MB PC800 Samsung RDRAM
Hard Drive	IBM Deskstar 30GB 75GXP 7200 RPM Ultra ATA/100
CDROM	Phillips 48X
Video Card(s)	NVIDIA GeForce3 64MB DDR (default clock - 200/230 DDR)
Ethernet	Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter
Software
Operating System	Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 2
Video Drivers	NVIDIA Detonator3 v12.41 @ 1024 x 768 x 16 @ 85Hz VIA 4-in-1 4.32V was used for all VIA based boards
Benchmarking Applications
Gaming	Quake III Arena v1.29f demo four AquaMark V22 DroneZ Benchmark
Productivity	Winstone 2001 BAPCo SYSMark 2001 Office Bench 2001
3D Graphics	3D Studio MAX R4

AMD's New Duron: Now at 1GHz

The Test

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