Our testing methods
As ever, we did our best to deliver clean benchmark numbers. Our test system was configured like so:

 AMD 760MP test system
Processor 1 x AMD Duron 1GHz
2 x AMD Duron 1GHz
2 x AMD Athlon MP 1.2GHz
2 x AMD Athlon MP 1800+ 1.53GHz
1 x AMD Athlon MP 1900+ 1.6GHz
2 x AMD Athlon MP 1900+ 1.6GHz
Front-side bus133MHz (266MHz DDR)
MotherboardTyan Tiger MP
ChipsetAMD 760MP
North bridgeAMD 762
South bridgeAMD 766
Memory size256MB (1 DIMM)
Memory typeMicron PC2100 Registered ECC DDR SDRAM CAS 2.5
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce3 64MB (Detonator XP 21.83 video drivers)
SoundCreative SoundBlaster Live!
StorageIBM 75GXP 30.5GB 7200RPM ATA/100 hard drive
OSMicrosoft Windows XP
OS updatesN/A

The test systems' Windows desktops were set at 1024x768 in 32-bit color at a 75Hz screen refresh rate. Vertical refresh sync (vsync) was disabled for all tests.

We used the following versions of our test applications:

All the tests and methods we employed are publicly available and reproducible. If you have questions about our methods, hit our forums to talk with us about them.