The Test

All of the benchmarks used in this review are identical to those used in our Athlon XP 2100+ Review. For more thorough descriptions of the tests we suggest you read through the benchmark sections of that review first.

Just as we introduced in our 2100+ Review, this review features CPU scaling charts at the bottom of every benchmark page. These charts are designed to illustrate how the performance of various CPU families scales with clock speeds; the goal being to help point out whether a CPU's performance is continuing to scale linearly with clock speed or if the laws of diminishing returns are kicking in.