Magic! (AMD Athlon Processors in general)

Member Name: AndreBoyle

Product:	AMD Athlon Processors in general
Date:	04/02/03 (195 review reads)
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Advantages: 100% compatible, Raw Power, Price

Disadvantages: Could always be faster :)

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. Previews that previously had to pre-render are running in reatime. Photoshop is at least 10 times faster than my old Athlon 650 (As much to do with the 120GB 10k RPM hard disk and memory I guess!).

Compatibility has not been an issue and the raw speed to £ value is considerably better than what Intel ever gave me.

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