16. 3dmark 2000 at the next resolution: 1280*1024
Thunderbird 1400
Palomino 1600

Palomino claws back at 1280*1024 with an equal tiny 2% advantage!

17. 3dmark 2000 at the highest resolution: 1600*1200
Thunderbird 1400
Palomino 1600

Palomino manages to win again at 1600*1200 with a 5% lead. Overall there is no clear winner in this first version of 3dmark to be tested!
We advance to 3dmark 2001, based on DirectX 8; extremely demanding back in the day; however geforce 7600gt has no problem delivering very high frame rates if it was not for the weak CPU's.

18. 1024*767 default settings - that means no AA!
Thunderbird 1400
Palomino 1600

At default settings Palomino wins by the slimmest of margins!

19. 3dmark 2001 - 1280*1024 max settings
Thunderbird 1400
Palomino 1600

Finally Athlon XP 1600 manages a convincing win by beating Thunderbird 1400 by over 6%

20. 3dmark 2001 at the highest settings: 1600*1200 max
Thunderbird 1400
Palomino 1600

In 3dmark 2001 Palomino makes a second comeback to win at all resolutions and settings! It needs to win far more tests to actually prove the advantage that Anand and others gave it in period correct reviews!

21. The next 3dmark is the 2003 version based on a mix of DirectX 8 & 9 tests. As always first are the results at 1024*768 default settings:
Thunderbird 1400
Palomino 1600

Palomino manages to win with an advantage of just over 2%!

22. We go up in resolution and settings to 1280*1024 max settings including AA:
Thunderbird 1400
Palomino 1600

Athlon XP 1600 keeps its tiny 2% lead even at this settings.

23. Finally the grand daddy of retro resolutions: 1600*1200
Thunderbird 1400
Palomino 1600

With only 1% between them there is really no winner here!
24 & 25 & 26: 3dmark 2003 is the only version to have a sound test. We are going to look at the frame rates with NO SOUND, 24 SOUNDS and 60 SOUNDS.
Thunderbird has a very small lead of just 1-2% across all 3 tests with sound, really too small to say we have a winner.
We such a small difference between Thunderbird and Palomino in 3dmark 2003 the 2 K7 generations are equals, with neither managing a definitive win.

27 & 28 & 29. 3dmark 2005 requires SSE instruction set so Thunderbird can not run it, however Palomino has SSE and can run it. Because the 2 K7 can not be compared in this benchmark the scores in 3dmark 2005 will not be taking into account in the final comparison but I am going to put them up for your viewing pleasure:

30. The only Windows GUI benchmark is Tom2D.
Palomino manages to win again, however by now it should be clear that it needs to win at greater differences in order to distance itself from Thunderbird.
Thunderbird 1400
Palomino 1600

31 & 32 & 33. We reached benchmarks that test general system performance and the first is PC mark 2002:
Thunderbird 1400
Palomino 1600

In the very first version of PC mark we got mixed results: palomino has a 9% better CPU score, however it has 7% lower memory score! We can not establish a winner here. I repeated the test many times and the differences remain every single time! Thunderbird works better with the RAM in this benchmark while Palomino scores higher!