AMD Athlon Manual page 11

22914B/0—September 1999
Business Winstone 99 Windows NT
Ziff-Davis Business Winstone 99 is an application-based benchmark that measures
system performance when running popular Windows-based 32-bit business
applications. Winstone 99 uses real business suite applications with scripts that mimic
the usage patterns of typical computer users, and allows end-users and organizations
to evaluate PCs for mainstream use.
Business Winstone® 99 (Windows NT® 4.0)
AMD Athlon™ 650
AMD Athlon 600
Pentium® III 600
33
Figure 3. Business Winstone 99 (Windows NT
Benchmark System Configuration. Diamond 770 using nVidia TNT2 Ultra 150MHz core, 183MHz memory
clock 32MB, Western Digital Expert 41800, single PC100 128MB DIMM, SoundBlaster Live (Value)
Audio, Linksys HPN100 Home Ethernet card, Toshiba 6X DVD SD-M1212, Dual Boot Windows® 98
& Windows NT® 4.0 using Norton System Commander. Windows NT 4.0 is installed with SP4, Win-
dows 98 with DX 6.1A build 2150, and nVidia TNT2 Ultra Driver Rev 1.81 under Windows 98 and
Windows NT.
AMD Athlon™ processor-based system: Reference Motherboard Rev. B*, BIOS Rev AFTB00-2, Bus
Mastering EIDE Driver v1.03, AGP miniport v4.41.
Pentium® III processor-based system: ASUS P2B Rev 1.02, BIOS Rev 1008 beta 4, EIDE-BM Driver
5/11/98, AGP miniport 5/11/98.
*This motherboard is not commercially available at this time.
The AMD Athlon™ 650 processor provides the projected
performance of a Pentium® III running at 780MHz.
34 35
Slower
A Guide to Building a PC with an AMD Athlon™ Processor
36 37 38
®
) Benchmark Results
39 40
Faster
5