AMD Athlon XP 2800+ / 2.08 GHz processor > Reviews

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 ... Read review

Advantages: Fast and cheap
Disadvantages: None

I've had this chip in my main computer now for over 6 months. What comes in the box? Well that all depends on what package you buy. These processor chips usually come in two flavours: Retail Boxed and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer). The difference to you and I is that the OEM version only contains the processor (and protective packaging) and the Retail Boxed version comes with a heatsink, fan, silicon coolant, instructions etc. Basically, ... Read review

Advantages: Very good value, supplied hsf is very quiet.
Disadvantages: Slow performance in some applications.

All of the AMD chips (except maybe the fx range) offer better value for money than their intel equivalents in all but the most CPU intensive compression programs (eg converting DVDs to divX). I have built two computers using this chip for people and have had nothing but good results from it, I built one high performance PC using it about 4 months ago and one medium range PC a couple of weeks ago. Both perform admirably in different aplications ... Read review

Advantages: Quick, Highly overclockable, great price, 333fsb
Disadvantages: hotter than p4's

...the same pace as an amd athlon 3200, the setting are, 400fsb(2*200) with a multiplier of 11 and the speed is 2200mhz. I have ddr 400 ram aslo so i get no bottlenecks in performance, the heatsink in the packet is very good for this cpu as it was changed recently to a new model, the cach for this cpu is 512mb of level 2 which give you freat performance this cpu is supposed to match the pentium 4 2.8 but i think its faster than that cpu by a long ... Read review