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.

AMD's Duron doesn't glean much performance from the 50MHz speed bump, upping its score just slightly under Windows 98 and a little more in Windows 2000.

We have been looking for a good DirectX game for quite a while now, and although Evolva is far removed from being good, it is definitely a DirectX game. We use the demo with bump mapping disabled to avoid possible interference from the GeForce2 MX cards with which we test.

By default, Evolva runs its benchmark at 1024x768. For this reason, the scores from each of our test systems are nearly identical. It goes to show that even with the most powerful processors available, an underpowered video solution will hold you back at high-resolution gaming.