AMD ATHLON XP 2800 512K CACHE

Rating:
Summary: YEs it come with fan and heatsink
Review: * This review should best be read along with my review of the Asus A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard <ASIN:B00007KJTT>.

I'm a fan of the underdog, 3rd generation American and diehard Mets fan. AMD appeals to me in a number of ways as a company: it's fighting for market share against a much bigger competitor, and has made some real innovations in the technology. Competition benefits the consumer, so I'm betting squarely on AMD to keep pushing Intel and the general tech. The AthlonXP 2800+ is another solid chip in the game.

This CPU is ultimately a compromise pick: you want the dual-channel memory of the Asus motherboard, and you want bang-for-buck. If you're firmly in the AMD camp, you're looking at Barton technology (the new AthlonXP line), but the high-end Bartons are expensive. With this CPU, you have the ability to run your dual-channel memory at 400Mhz instead of 333Mhz, even if your CPU isn't a real 200Mhz FSB part.

Nor will you necessarily suffer for the compromise: the Asus motherboard allows you to wait out the CPU prices and still get the full benefit of the memory speeds.

As for performance, the Intel P4s will read memory faster, due to their higher clock speeds and motherboard chipset pairing (800Mhz FSB on many). However, memory writes are nearly equal in some benchmarks, and in real-world or objective synthetic benchmarks, the AMD AthlonXPs are a bang-for-buck winner over Intel P4s.

Should you buy this CPU? Absolutely. Look at the price differentials carefully and weigh your needs. You might need the high-end Barton now, you might need that increased Intel memory read now... or you might be like me, a smart shopper with a longer view of your computing needs, and figure it's the best chip for the next twelve months.

Rating:
Summary: Fast compromise CPU.
Review: * This review should best be read along with my review of the Asus A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard .

I'm a fan of the underdog, 3rd generation American and diehard Mets fan. AMD appeals to me in a number of ways as a company: it's fighting for market share against a much bigger competitor, and has made some real innovations in the technology. Competition benefits the consumer, so I'm betting squarely on AMD to keep pushing Intel and the general tech. The AthlonXP 2800+ is another solid chip in the game.

This CPU is ultimately a compromise pick: you want the dual-channel memory of the Asus motherboard, and you want bang-for-buck. If you're firmly in the AMD camp, you're looking at Barton technology (the new AthlonXP line), but the high-end Bartons are expensive. With this CPU, you have the ability to run your dual-channel memory at 400Mhz instead of 333Mhz, even if your CPU isn't a real 200Mhz FSB part.

Nor will you necessarily suffer for the compromise: the Asus motherboard allows you to wait out the CPU prices and still get the full benefit of the memory speeds.

As for performance, the Intel P4s will read memory faster, due to their higher clock speeds and motherboard chipset pairing (800Mhz FSB on many). However, memory writes are nearly equal in some benchmarks, and in real-world or objective synthetic benchmarks, the AMD AthlonXPs are a bang-for-buck winner over Intel P4s.

Should you buy this CPU? Absolutely. Look at the price differentials carefully and weigh your needs. You might need the high-end Barton now, you might need that increased Intel memory read now... or you might be like me, a smart shopper with a longer view of your computing needs, and figure it's the best chip for the next twelve months.

Rating:
Summary: YEs it come with fan and heatsink
Review: I just bought this CPU and it came with fan.
great deal, I am happy.
Before I had Athlon 800MHz, big difrence in performance.

Rating:
Summary: AMD ATHLON XP 2800 512K CACHE
Review: Ok folks, bought my Barton 2800+ awhile ago, and I've just recently gotten this system up and running and at a good place, so I'll let you know how I did. Specs are as follows:

EpoX 8RGA+
ATI Radeon 9600XT 128MB
1 Gig Corsair TwinX PC3200LL
80GB Western Digital Special Edition
Innovatek Water cooler (set5)
Enermax case with the Enermax logo side window (mid-tower)

Right now I have the CPU running at 12x200 at 1.825 VCore and 2.0 VDD for a total of about 2.41GHz. I plan on bumping up the FSB a little more, as the jump to 2.0 VDD should give me at least another 5 FSB. Max stable CPU overclock was about 2425MHz. I purchased this CPU as soon as newegg had them, so I don't know if newer batches are performing any better. Still not a bad overclock. Prices have lined up much better since the release, as was expected, but I had to have it then :)

Rating:
Summary: Boxed item?
Review: The description for this item does not
say if it includes the cooler and fan,
and therefore the 3 yr. warranty.
Amazon did not know. Thanks.