Testing at 640 x 480 helps to remove the graphics card as a bottleneck and focus the attention on the CPU. In this case, the Athlon takes a clear back seat to the Pentium III when armed with the GeForce.
The Athlon 800 moves up one notch with the TNT2 Ultra, but still comes in 2nd to the Pentium III 800.
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xrror - Friday, December 12, 2014 - link
The thing to remember during this era is that coppermine P3's (or at least, any P3 with integrated cache) were pretty much stupid expensive, and unobtanium to get. While with the Athlon 800 you could actually buy one and not be on a wait list for 2 months.Also ugh, RAMBUS and 820 were just way too much money. BX @ 133 with a video card that could handle it - which Geforce 2 era cards started to be built for that was where it was at if you were Intel. Or you just waited like everyone else for the Athlon Thunderbird to come out... =)