Advantages: Fast, Excellent MHz/£ ratio, Highly Overclockable
Disadvantages: Hotter than Intel P4s, Die is more fragile.

...The AMD AthlonXP 2600+ is in my opinion the best choice for those of you thinking of upgrading, or even buying a new system. And of course I will now tell you why. Speed ----------- Running at an FSB of 166MHz, with the help of DDR we double that to 333MHz, the Athlon 2600+ has the equivalent speed of a Pentium 4 2.5GHz (in terms of general use) and because of its optimization with Windows XP boasts Windows processing performance better than Pentiums running faster than 2.7GHz. In simpler terms it out-performs the Pentium equivalents in every day-to-day tasks. For games the Athlon runs just as well if not better than the Pentium 4 2.6GHz. The only thing that AThlon XP processors seem to be slower at is hard-core video and music processing (in otherwords putting together a video clip and turning .WAV files into MP3s etc... Read review

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Advantages: Decent performance, cheap, you can tell you're mates "I got one too!"
Disadvantages: Not as fast as Pentium 4 rated at same speed, not future proof

...When I go to a few of my mate's home's, I sit down and have a few beers, play a few Playstation 2 games and have a kebab. But then I will always spy their PC sitting in the corner of the room hiding under a desk. I would ask them 'what processor you got in your rig?' and they would reply 'ah you know, AMD Athlon XP'. AMD Athlon XP processors are cheap and fast. All my mates have them and that's because it runs the games, but doesn't take your bank into financial meltdown. Sure it's not the fastest processor in the world but for the asking price its amazing value for money. You ever wondered why AMD added 'XP' to the end of their Athlon processors? I always thought it was because they wanted to boost sales using Windows XP, with them having the same suffix and all. But in fact it stands for Xtra Performance, unlike Window's XP which... Read review

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Advantages: Price and reliability
Disadvantages: Processor Temperature

...I can only speak from experience, I have run the AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 2100+ and I am currently running the 2200+. I have found very little difference in performance between them all, but I am sure that the performance is greater the higher the size of processor you get. I guess what I am saying is that once you get to the 1800+ processor, you don't really notice the increased performance as much. The advantages I have found over the Intel P4 is the low price. If you want to purchase on of these processors, may I suggest that you try Ebuyer.com on the internet. I have found them to be very reasonable when comparing the price to even some of the trade prices. Also the build quality of the chip just looks better, when you compare it against the Intel chip. I had one of the first Intel P4 chips when they first came out and because... Read review

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Advantages: Value for money, Speed.
Disadvantages: CPU Temperature

...Well in a word 'Yes!' I have an XP processor in my present computer, and it has been solid as a rock from the word go! AMD processors before the Athlon always had the stigma that they were never as good for games as the Intel equivalent, and to a degree, those feelings were true.. even the Celeron beat the K6-2 and K6-3 in games frame rates etc. This meant games which were responsive on the Celeron didn't have a hope on the equivalent K6. This made the AMD processor more of a business workhorse, coming out on top for all things business! Well things have certainly moved on since then, and ever since the introduction of the Athlon processor, tables have turned in AMD's favour. They have been working hard on pummelling resources into improving the floating point unit of the processor (the part of the processor that does all... Read review

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Advantages: Great value processor
Disadvantages: slower than Pentium 4

...The AMD Athlon XP 2400+ processors are cheap and fast. All my friends recommend this product to me because it can handle games and it is easy on the budget. Sure it's not the fastest processor in the world but for the it has an amazing value for money. This processor is a very capable of doing some decent tasks I doing a lot of content creation and I’m quite satisfied with the Athlon XP 2400+. Features This processor is made from Thoroughbred B core. This core is produced on the new standard 0.13 Micron processes which allows more transistors to be placed on the chip. The processor has 1.65V core voltage standard and can be increase when overclocking. It has clock speed of 2.0 GHZ, has a 266 mhz front side bus and a 256 kb L2 cache. This processor also requires a pc 2100 ddr ram, you can’t use the sdram memory on this processor... Read review

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Advantages: Fast 333mhz bus speed, Easy to install, Cheaper than other brands.
Disadvantages: May not work in all motherboards

...After searching around for a new processor for my computer, and seeking recomendations from various computer shops, i was given two choices: 1/ AMD Athlon XP 2/ Intel Pentium 4 Owing to the fact that Intels Pentium 4 2.0ghz was roughly twice the price of the Athlon