|  Winstone 2001 | Source: Zdnet | 
  
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Content Creation Winstone 
2001 keeps multiple applications open at once and switches among those 
applications. Content Creation Winstone 2001's activities focus on what we call 
"hot spots," periods of activity that make your PC really work--the times where 
you're likely to see an hourglass or a progress bar.
Business Winstone is a 
system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall 
performance when running today's Windows-based 32-bit applications on Windows 98 
ME, Windows NT 4.0 (SP6 or later), Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Windows XP which 
runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time 
a PC takes to complete those activities to produce its performance 
scores. 
Like in 
SysMark2002, the Winstone benchmarks show a very significant performance boost 
when the processor is overclocked!
SPECviewperf™ is a portable OpenGL performance 
benchmark program written in C. It was developed by IBM. Later updates and 
significant contributions were made by SGI, Digital and other SPECopcSM project group members. SPECviewperf 
provides a vast amount of flexibility in benchmarking OpenGL performance. 
Currently, the program runs on most implementations of UNIX, Windows NT, Windows 
95/98 and Linux. Higher numbers equate to better performance.     
A trend 
is appearing, overclocking the P4 1.6A brings in some excellent results! Seems 
the performance boost in SPECviewperf is approx. 20-25%.