3D WinBench 2000, normally used for DirectX 7 video card tests, also gives your CPU, cache, FSB, and memory a good thrashing. WinBench 2000 runs on a "null" software renderer, which prevents the speed of your video card and its driver from affecting the results. 3D WinBench 2000 makes for a good benchmark of internal 3D processing power.

The Celeron 766 scores 1.11 under Windows 98, significantly less than even the 700MHz Duron. It is interesting that the Celeron does not scale as well as the Duron, gaining less of a score percentage with each clock. This is likely due to the 66MHz FSB bottlenecking the Celeron. The Pentium III, with a 133MHz FSB, actually scales very well. The Celeron 766MHz makes a similar showing under Windows 2000.

The tests here warrant attention because complex Adobe PhotoShop 5.0, Adobe Premiere 5.1, Macromedia Director 7.0, Macromedia Dreamweaver 2.0, Netscape Navigator 4.6 and Sonic Foundry Sound Forge scripts are run. Content Creation Winstone 2000 keeps multiple applications open at once and switches among those applications. All of these have 'hot spots', as ZD likes to call them that truly test the system, but the CPU especially. Think of this benchmark as the "Crusher" ZD-equivalent test, which pushes real world programs to their limits (as opposed to Quake II timedemo1) on a system level.

The Celeron 766MHz runs slower in Content Creation 2000 under Windows 98 than the 700MHz Duron. Under Windows 2000, the Celeron 766MHz gains a little ground and passes the 700MHz Duron by a small margin.