And in conclusion the results of the synthetic CPU test from PCMark2002 benchmark set.

Conclusion

The major result of this investigation is not even the idea we got about the performance of the upcoming Athlon XP 3200+ and 3000+ processors. The most important thing is that we can state with all certainty: the industry is ready for the transition of AMD Athlon XP processors to faster 400MHz bus. ABIT NF7 2.0 mainboard and Corsair TWINX512-3200LL memory modules are an excellent proof to this point.

As for the performance level demonstrated by Barton based processors with 400MHz processor bus, the results are not surprising at all. However, let us leave the detailed discussion until the official announcement of these processors. Because the information about their clock frequencies used in this article is not official and hence can be not quite correct.