Once I got the rig upgraded to socket A and was running benchmarks
on a fresh Duron 800, I was impressed at how zippy it was. I couldn't
help thinking it was faster than my P3-700@933, but figured it was just because
it was a fresh install and didn't have all the extra hardware in it that my
main rig has. After playing AHL
on it for a few days, I was even more convinced. I had to know the truth!
I had seen a lot of PIII v Tbird and Duron V Tbird comparisons but never a
Duron V PIII. I took it upon myself to take up this task!
These two machines used are pretty much twins, considering one
is socket 370 and the other socket A, I have upgraded each several times and
it is just a coincidence that they are identical with the exception of
the video card, which I swapped out for the tests.
OK, here's what we got!
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AMD Duron 800@933 (7x133mhz, 1.75v)
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Intel PIII 700@933 (7x133mhz, 1.75v)
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Iwill KK266 (Via KT133a chipset)
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Iwill VD133gold (Via Apollo pro 133a chipset)
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128mb Micron PC133 C-75 sdram
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128mb Micron PC133 C-75 sdram
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Nvidia Geforce2 MX 32mb
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Nvidia Geforce2 MX 32mb
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Maxtor 15g 7200rpm ata/66 hdd.
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Maxtor 15g 7200rpm ata/66 hdd.
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Water cooled CPU and video
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Water cooled CPU and video
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I was running the onboard sound on both machines, but since
the KK266 has a C-media 4.1 chip onboard and the VD133gold uses the Via
AC-97, I disabled them. I also disabled the CD drives and floppies, since
the test rig didn't have any installed, and pulled out my vid cap card. Then
I set both bios' to the same settings (this was easy as they were almost identical)
and ran the video at the default speed.
They were as close as they were gonna get.
Operating system (both)
Windows ME
Via 4in1 4.28av
Nvidia detonator 7.17
DirectX 8
SiSoft sandra 2001 Pro
Mad Onion 3DMark 2000
