WHOOOOOOSH!!!!! (AMD Athlon XP 2500+ / 1.83 GHz)

Name: SimonFinnigan

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Product:	AMD Athlon XP 2500+ / 1.83 GHz
Date:	23.02.04 (1153 review reads)
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Advantages: Fantastic value for money

Disadvantages: Difficult to fit the heat-sink

I`ve built myself a few PC`s over the years, and i`ve always gone for processors from AMD. They tend to be cheaper and morepowerful than comparable processors from Intel.

Anyway, the last machine I built, I put in an Athlon XP 2500+ processor, since it was the cheapest "fast" processor I could find that had a good degree of overclocking ability in it. I installed the processor, which was relatively simple, and turned on the machine. I had upgraded from an Athlon 1.4GHz, so the speed difference was noticible right from the very start. I am extremely impressed with the extra speed ofthis processor - although it only runs about 600 MHz faster than my last processor, it runs the computing intensive software that I use regularly about twice as quickly. Not all of that is down to the processor of course - I upgraded the motherboard as well as putting more (and faster) RAM in the machine, but the overall speed increase is much better than I had originally hoped for.

After playing with the machine for a little bit, I decided to try voerclocking it. I started off by overclocking it (this means making it run faster than it was originally dsigned to do) to the same speed as what was then AMD`s top of the range chip - the 3200+. it ran perfectly stabley, and was only running a few degrees warmer than when it was running at its original speed.

As usual, there was one poblem fitting the processor. Well, fitting the processor wassimple enough - it was fitting the heat sink that annoys me. It takes a LOT of force to properly fit the heatsink onto the clips provided on he motherboard - 35 pounds of force rings a bell from the instructions, and sounds about right. This is done by pressing down very hard on the motherboard through the heat sink, and alwys makes me think that I`m going to snap the motherboard in half - which would be a very expensive mistake to make. Make sure you do this on a hard flat surface with some padding behind th
e motherboard to support it as well as you can.

Don`t try overclocking your machine if you don`t know what you are doing. if you want to give it a try though, then the Athlon XP 2500+ comes very highly reccomended by me. I can`t promise that your one will overclock anywhere near as well as mine did, but if you get one as good as mine, you`ll be very impressed and have gotten yourself a bargain!

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