
Het testsysteem van Anand was gebouwd rond het AMD Corona EVT8 reference board. Deze plank werkte probleemloos onder Windows 2000, alleen viel de harddisk performance tegen door een ontbrekende ATA100 driver. Onder Windows 2000 scoorde de controller 59,9MB/s, sneller dan de Intel ICH1 en VIA 686A maar trager dan de Intel ICH2 (76MB/s). Onder Win98SE werd een throughput van 78,5MB/s gemeten. De ATA100 prestaties van de 766 southbridge zijn in principe dus prima.

You can immediately tell that two of these CPUs, the 1GHz and 1.2GHz parts, overlap with 100MHz FSB parts while the 1.13GHz Athlon is a 133MHz FSB-only chip. The only thing that sets the 1GHz and 1.2GHz CPUs apart from their 100MHz FSB counterparts is their clock multiplier. While the 100MHz FSB Athlon running at 1.2GHz has a 12.0x clock multiplier (12 x 100 = 1200MHz), the 133MHz FSB version only has a 9.0x multiplier (9 x 133 = 1200MHz). Obviously if you have a motherboard that can get around the clock multiplier lock this won’t pose a problem to you, but if not, then you will want to make sure that you only use a 133MHz FSB CPU on an AMD 760 board. [break] Anand is positief in zijn conclusie, maar vindt niet dat het voor Athlon bezitters de moeite waard is om nu te upgraden naar een 760 systeem. Volgens hem kun je beter wachten tot de volgende generatie Athlons (gebaseerd op de Mustang core) de markt betreden: [/break] As far as price is concerned, the AMD 760 chipset will most likely be more expensive than the KT133. Combine that with the fact that the 133MHz FSB Athlons are carrying a small price premium over their 100MHz siblings ($20 - $50 extra for the 133MHz FSB parts), and the added cost of DDR SDRAM (assuming you're going for PC2100 DDR SDRAM) you're probably going to find yourself wanting to wait before committing to such a major upgrade.In comparison to the upcoming Pentium 4, even with DDR SDRAM and the 133MHz FSB it may be difficult for a 1.2GHz Athlon to compete with a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 in many benchmarks. AMD may be forced to release a higher clocked Athlon in order to remain competitive performance-wise, however they will almost definitely hold the price to performance ratio crown throughout the rest of the year.
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