AMD Socket-A 133MHz FSB/DDR Overclocking Guide

Even in Office and Content Creation applications, which SYSMark 2000 puts to the test, the 1GHz Duron doesn't fall into the one exception we found in the Linpack tests where it would actually be slower than the Athlon 750. It just goes to show you that the chances of that happening are very low.

Under SYSMark 2000 the Athlon at 1GHz, once again, showed an 11% performance advantage over the equivalently overclocked Duron.

Here's something interesting. In theory, the Duron should have been showing a greater performance increase by moving to the faster memory/FSB than the Athlon because it has more to gain from a faster memory bus (as we showed in our Linpack benchmarks because of its smaller L2 cache). However up until this point that hadn't come true.

Content Creation Winstone 2000 is a benchmark that focuses on multitasking, running multiple office and content creation applications, such as MS Word and Adobe Photoshop, at the same time. As you can guess, and as we saw in our AMD 760 Review, this is where a faster memory bus and FSB can truly shine. This is also where the Duron's ability to gain more from the faster DDR memory can be seen, although the performance delta it produces is much smaller than what we originally expected.

Here the Athlon is only 2% faster than the Duron when they're both overclocked to 1GHz using the 133MHz FSB.