New from Ziff-Davis, Content Creation 2001 tests warrant attention because complex Adobe PhotoShop 5.5, Adobe Premiere 5.1, Macromedia Director 8.0, Macromedia Dreamweaver 3.0, Netscape Navigator 4.73 and Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 4.5 scripts are run. Content Creation Winstone 2001 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.

A new benchmark means new comparison numbers; so don't bother to compare these scores to past reviews that included Content Creation 2000 results. A new millennium means new testing matrices and new scores, folks.

Once again, the bus frequency jump between the Celeron 766 and Celeron 800 is apparent - just as obvious as the gap between the fastest Celeron and the fastest Duron. We have seen quite a bit of headroom in AMD's Duron, so while the Celeron still trails, we expect AMD will not hesitate to widen this gap in the near future.