athlon xp processors... any good?
 

looking at laptops..
the athlon xp's are generally much cheaper than comperably equipped P4 systems...

how do they compare?

hyperthreading and the 800mhz fsb can be a slight advantage, depending on what you're using.

i've used amd for my primary system for years, no problems and they're plenty fast (generally faster than intel at a lower clock).

I'm not into laptops, but I've got an Athlon running my pc. I love it, no problems, nice and quick. I give Athlon a big :thumbsup and Intel a big :321GFY any day of the week.

I've never had any problems with any of my AMD machines.

i've got about 15 athlon XPs sitting around here.. they're great :)

cool.

AMD user for the last 5 years no probz.

if you want to slap together a fairly decent machine on the cheap, you can get a barton 2500+ for about $80. they're sufficiently fast for most projects you want to work on, and they have more 'snap' from the large cache.

my XP2100 overheats I have to clock it down to 1500... my old XP 1 gig is ok though had that years and I had a AMD K6 before that was good too

I heard barton is better

agreed, just make sure you get a good fan AMD they tend to heat up more than intel!

No such thing as an xp 1 gig

I was an intel only guy for years but this year I got myself an xp2800 and am quite impressed.

Incidentally, on the heat side amd are designed to run to 90deg C whereas intel are designed to run to 70deg C.

I just built a new PC and used the AMD Athlon XP 2500+ with the Barton Core with 512 L2 Cache. Fast as hell and a bargain price.

All the info about AMD CPU's is here:

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...30_118,00.html

My CPU is running at 43 C and 109 F.

:thumbsup

Im all for athlon, been a AMD person for quite some time now. The cheap 2500 bartons are good for most people. But if you are a system tweaker and like overclocking you can still find some early week unlocked 2500+ barton chips for $130-$230 and push em to 3200+ with ease.

AMD rocks!

they do get hot, but the newer xp chips run a little cooler than the previous socket a athlons. i'm running a 2400+ @ 2332, runs in the low to mid 40's with a copper zalman flower. it will run at a little over 2400, but occasionally gets a little unstable due to heat.

good info.. thanks all.