One word really does describe how superb this chip is. I got my AMD 2GHz Athlon not so long ago to be the herat of my new video editing machine. A rather beefy heatsink and extra fan seemed a wise decision at the time and I think I'm feeling the benefit of the lot just now. I opted to save on the motherboard and memory byt getting a PC-Chips 810LMR motherboard with everything combined in there and 1GB of standard SDRAM memory. My logic with video editing is that more is more. So instead of paging to disk I get it all in memory, slower than DDR, but memory none the less. The processor is now working wonders in all of my video editing software. ...  Read the complete review

Recently just bought a AMD Anthlon 1800 thinking i was going for the cheap option, which it was, but then again it was so much better than the Pentium i have it was shocking no wonder anyone who knows what there talking about don't sell Pentiums anymore! This little best together with a bog standard graphics card runs game at the top fps and keeps it there no matter what, which is kind of nice :) The only disadvantage to this processor is meant to be that it heats up a bit more than the Pentiums but i have only got one good fan on it at the momentand its doing just fine, so much for getting a bit to hot it just wasn't the case at all. The only reason to buy a ...  Read the complete review

Once upon a time, intel made something called a pentium processor, and everyone thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. At the time, it probably was the market leader, and was generally pretty cool. Mail order, and large PC companies, started whacking these processors in all of their machines as a selling point. To many people who don't really know what they're doing (first time buyers and the like) the little 'intel inside' sticker is a good thing. To me, it is more like a red cross on the door of someone with the plague. No, there's nothing wrong with pentiums, and over time, like Microsoft, they became a bit of a ...  Read the complete review

AMD have been in the processor business for quite a while, but it wasn't until their Athlon Thunderbird line of processor that they really entered mainstream acceptance as a competitive processor to the Intel family of processors. Intel had the lead over many of the other CPU manufacturers for quite a while in the past decade, but things are changing. There is now some competition for them to deal with. Intel gained a lot of respect for their Pentium line of chips; they became the standard for others to follow. They had their name printed on the boxes of games, remember the saying Pentium Pro or compatible processor. This has left many people thinking that ...  Read the complete review

As a techie, I try to keep up with the current technologies, especially in networking and processing. Recently, I've been reading that companies are discontinuing their production of computers containing the AMD Athlon processor. In my opinion, this is a big mistake. The Athlon XP processor out performs the P4 at 2 GHz when it comes to most office functions. The Athlon's largest problem resulted when it was tested against the 2 GHz P4 for graphics rendering. The test utilized the game Quake 3. Personally, I hope that people aren't using this game in the office. I also know that there are many home users that do not need this level of graphics ...  Read the complete review