AMD Athlon XP Review

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AMD Athlon XP
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hengtian's Review of AMD Athlon XP Processor

4th Aug 2003

Overall Rating

3 stars
  • Value for money
    3.5 stars
Good Points

cheap and fast


Bad Points

too hot, need lots of fan hence very noisy


General Comments

I got a pc with AMD Athlon XP 2200 with six 8cm fans. I still not satified with the high temperature (65C!!!). However AMD is cheap. If give me a chance again, i will get Intel chip because i can't stand the noisy fan in my pc.... i can't sleep at night if i switch on my pc!!!!

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  • abdnray Rank: Sergeant on 20th Feb 2006

    AMD's Athlon XP processors do run hot, and 65° is an average temperature. It is probably more efficient to select a CPU cooling fan and heat-sink for a much higher rated processor (eg. XP3000+ rated fan for an Athlon XP 2600+) rather than simply adding additional 8cm case fans. The additional case fans may actually draw air-flow within the PC case away from the area of the processor, starving it of cool air. This will only compound the situation. Ensure that you have adequate thermal conductivity between the back of the processor and the heat-sink, either by using aluminium or copper based conductive paste, or by using adhesive conduction patches. If your motherboard BIOS is capable of monitoring processor temperature, use this to prevent overheating, particularly if you overclock your processor. The software will shut down the PC before it can fry the processor. I would not suggest overclocking any Athlon XP processor without using some high-specification cooling system (e.g. water cooled heatsinks, or large copper heatsinks). Shut down, disconnect, and open the PC case occasionally (once or twice a year, depending upon frequency of use) and remove any fluff or dust from inside the case with compressed air, or a vacuum cleaner. However, do not touch the motherboard or any components without first earthing yourself to the PC case chassis. Later generations of Socket A processors (eg. Semperon processors) were designed specifically to run with much lower core temperatures, in order to address this overheating problem. That is why they can now achieve clock speeds in excess of 3000 MHz.

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