So where does all of this extra performance come from? SiSoft Sandra is a very useful application that we take memory bandwidth numbers from. While to move from PC133 to PC2100 sounds like a tremendous in performance, the actual comparison here is: 133 versus 266MHz memory.

Although this isn't even close to the 2.1GB/s of theoretical memory bandwidth, it is still the largest number we have ever seen for this particular benchmark (that's right, even more than our system equipped with RDRAM).

We were sad to see that our AMD-760-equipped 1.2GHz system did not significantly beat the KT133 in most of our content creation and office productivity testing. Since SYSMark 2000 was not particularly stable on the overclocked Duron 600, we used Content Creation 2000 to try and get scores that tell a different tale.

Five percent isn't particularly dumbfounding, but it is an increase over what we saw with the 1.2GHz Thunderbird CPU. Needless to say, we are much more impressed with the gaming scores than these.