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AMD Travels Through Time: Athlon XP 2800+ with Dual-DDR

07:00 - Tuesday 1 October 2002 by Frank Völkel

1. The Future Is Now: The Athlon XP 2800+ Is Here!
2. Details On The Athlon XP 2800+/2700+
3. Comparison: Heat Dissipation Of All AMD Athlon CPUs
4. Bingo! Synchronous Operation With 166 MHz FSB, Continued
5. Details On The Test Boards
6. Details On The Test Boards, Continued
7. New CPUs, Old Boards: Athlon XP 2800+ Starting From KT333
8. History: Protection Against Thermal Death
9. Comparison: T-Bred "B" Vs. T-Bred "A" Vs. Palomino, Continued
10. New Guidelines For CPU Coolers: No Cheap Models
11. Test Setup And Details
12. Benchmarks Under Windows XP

The time is January 6, 2003. The location: a busy street full of computer specialty stores. You run over to the nearest one. You shell out a thousand bucks to buy the very latest and best. You take a look at your purchases: an AMD Athlon XP 2800+ and an Nvidia nForce 2 mobo for Dual DDR 400. Well, guess what? The future is now. It's here, and we have a taste of it.

The Athlon XP 2800+ with 166 MHz FSB in action.

This little scenario illustrates the situation of the Athlon XP 2800+. AMD sent us two processors, the Athlon XP 2800+ and 2700+, both of which run with an FSB clock of 166 MHz. The XP 2700+ is based on a clock speed of 2166 MHz (13.0 x 166 MHz), and the XP 2800+ on 2250 MHz (13.5 x 166 MHz). Furthermore, the test components consisted of an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro graphics card and a motherboard with Nvidia's nForce 2 chipset (Asus A7N8X).