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Benchmarks are like sex, everybody loves doing it, everybody thinks they are good at it, and nobody really understands that hormones take over where the brain used to be. The truth is that with benchmarks, anything can be shown, if necessary, I could probably make my own main system (socket7) look better than most high end test candidates. Over the past months, we have been working with out own suite of benchmarks here comprising those applications that not only are widely distributed but also have the highest consumer ratings and further, are actually relevant for the consumer. Since this review's scope goes beyond the system capabilities and straight down to the CPU level, we are adding some synthetic benchmarks just to provide a rounded picture and to catch some minor differences since the granularity of synthetic benchmarks is often better than what we see in real life applications. Conversely, we can also say, for real life, who cares?

Synthetic Benchmarks

• SiSoft Sandra 2002

• Sysmark 2000
• Winstone Content Creation 2001
• 3DMark2001 ViewPERF 6.12

• Incoming Gameindex
• Expendable Timedemo
• Quake3 Arena
• AquaMark V23

• Caligari TrueSpace4.2
• Caligari TrueSpace5.1

• Ulead MediaStudio Pro 6.0

All benchmarks were run in Windows98 SE and WindowsXP as long as they were appliccable. That is, ZDNet-Labs Content Creation Winstone 2001 does not run int WinXP, likewise, Sysmark2000 showed totally erratic behavior in WinXP so that we abstain from showing any results. For some reason, the Caligari TS4.2 benchmark would immediately crash in WinXP while running flawlessly in Win98SE. Some applications gave largely different results depending on the operating system which is why we show both sets of data where necessary. In general, WinXP gave higher scores in some applications but there are quite a few exceptions.

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