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Advantages: Great overclocking Facilities
Disadvantages: Fiddly to install,recommend a pro

I brought this processor approximately 2months ago as an upgrade from my old processsor. I found that for the money it was a tremendous upgrade, and that it was just right for a computer with graphic design capabilities, The processor runs without any hesitation or lag, it has plenty of overclocking facilities if you wish to push more power out of your mahcine, which i decided not to, but as a test i did overclock it to 3500 which out any problems, ... Read review

Advantages: very good for games
Disadvantages: not very good for muti tasking

amd have always been the bests for games but never 2 good for muti tasking but if your like me and you can have 2 processors you should have one amd and Intel so your pc will be good for gaming and muti tasking so if you really want a fast pc you should used amd and intel together so that you can do all the things you want or you could just get two of this amd processor so that your pc will be 4.8 ghz with windows xp 64 bit it will work so much better ... Read review

Advantages: GOOD WORKS IN 3D GAME'S AND SOFTWARE'S ENVIRONMENT
Disadvantages: EASLY HOTTER AND WORKS NO IN MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE IN SEVERAL MAINBOARD'S BRANDS

...software especially when rendering,before use AMD Athlon 64 3500+, for do that things I must need more time and find more problems, but after use That processor,I'm very glad,it produces good performance in rendering ,needs no more time again to produce high 3D Pictures and while playing the 3D games more interactive,lifely,smooth movement with best performance,but be carefull this product works no too good in several mainboard's brands and types,it's ... Read review

Advantages: Quick, Never an error, Very affordable
Disadvantages: NONE!

...not come with the official AMD heatsink and fan but then I really didn't want that anyway. I always find these certified fans too noisy so I bought a Zalman CNPS6000-CU AMD cooler. If you have seen these then you will know they are not your typical heatsink and fan. They have a huge surface area and a large fan running at a very low RPM. This makes for efficient and quiet cooling. The CPU runs at around 55C and if you are playing games or a CPU demanding ...
...Since I have had this CPU for such a long time I would have expected to be playing games now where my system would struggle but this is not the case. I can still play the latest games such as Doom 3 and still have perfect game play. I think this makes it excellent value for money. I think I am only going to replace my current system when the new Athlon 64s come down in price and when performance is considerably more because even after 18 months I ... Read review

Advantages: High performance.
Disadvantages: A tad expensive now in comparison to other more recent processors.

...saddens me. You see AMD processors are every bit as good, sometimes better. Although the processors are all fully compatible with Windows and any other PC software, they work slightly differently inside. That is why the true speed of this Athlon is only 2.1 GHz, but it is as powerful as a 3 GHz Pentium 4. That is why it is branded as a 3000XP. I have this processor in my main computer. At the time it was just about the most powerful processor available, ...
...more technically minded, most of the 3000XP processors are good overclockers. On an Abit NF7-S I achieved speeds that give close to a 4000XP rating. The increased cache memory over the old Thoroughbred core Athlons gives a performance increase of between 5 and 10% depending on the application being run. Socket A is now an old platform, but the upside to that is that it generally is cheaper. Of course, if you want a cheap system then a 2500XP is ... Read review