5. We go up to 1280*1024 - no sound the first time:
A. Athlon XP 3200
B. Athlon 64 3200

6. .. and with sound:
A. Athlon XP 3200
B. Athlon 64 3200

7. We reached the 4k of the retro world: 1600*1200
A. Athlon XP 3200
B. Athlon 64 3200

8. Final and most demanding settings: 1600*1200 AA 4X sound:
A. Athlon XP 3200
B. Athlon 64 3200

Athlon 64 is off to a good start: leading across all resolutions and settings it scores the first victory! In all tests with sound the impact on Athlon XP is actually higher than on Athlon 64 despite the XP having sound storm on its side!
Also note that at 1600*1200 we are witnessing a GPU bottleneck and that is with a 7800gs! I wonder how a geforce4 TI4200, a very popular card for Windows 98 builds would fare in directx8 games?? - hint: terrible!!

9. We switch to Aquamark3, a DirectX9 benchmark that implements proper hardware sound. Maybe nvidia with sound storm can help a little bit more the XP 3200 this time around!
First is the standard test with default settings:
A. Athlon XP 3200
B. Athlon 64 3200

10. We stay at 1024*768 - max settings and with sound enabled:
A. Athlon XP 3200
B. Athlon 64 3200

11. Now we go up to 1280*1024 max details; without sound the first time:
A. Athlon XP 3200
B. Athlon 64 3200

12. ... and with sound:
A. Athlon XP 3200
B. Athlon 64 3200

13. It seems Athlon XP can't catch a break! Despite having a dedicated onboard solution for processing the sound in hardware equivalent to Creative live it lags behind Athlon 64 by quite a bit! Sound storm does not help Athlon XP to lower the difference between it and Athlon 64!
1600*1200 sound disabled:
A. Athlon XP 3200
B. Athlon 64 3200

14. final and most demanding settings: 1600*1200 sound enabled:
A. Athlon XP 3200
B. Athlon 64 3200

Excellent performance by the Athlon 64 3200 Venice enables the K8 to score a clear victory in Aquamark3.

15. Mad onion - as people of certain age like myself knows it - with 3 different 3dmark and PCmark versions is next!
3dmark 2000 is the only directx7 test in the entire suite:
1024*768 default settings
A. Athlon XP 3200
B. Athlon 64 3200

16. 1280*1024
A. Athlon XP 3200
B. Athlon 64 3200

17. 1600*1200
A. Athlon XP 3200
B. Athlon 64 3200

Athlon 64 slaughters the XP in 3dmark 2000 with 30% or greater lead across al resolutions!

18. 3dmark 2001 is next; default settings first!
A. Athlon XP 3200
B. Athlon 64 3200

19. 1280*1024 is next:
A. Athlon XP 3200
B. Athlon 64 3200

20. and lastly: 1600*1200
A. Athlon XP 3200
B. Athlon 64 3200

In 3dmark 2001 Athlon 64 shows no mercy for its older cousin and wins again by a large margin!