AMD Athlon XP kicks butt =D

jebo_4jc said:
I don't think so. HT was introduced in 2002, but the Athlon 64 was released in late 2003/early 2004.
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Splitting hairs. It was still a short lived run and soon surpassed. There was only 1 HT Pentium 4 in 02 and that was in Nov. and was not particularly impressive due to the chipset limitations already sited in the post previous to this one.
 
OptyTrooper said:
Splitting hairs. It was still a short lived run and soon surpassed. There was only 1 HT Pentium 4 in 02 and that was in Nov. and was not particularly impressive due to the chipset limitations already sited in the post previous to this one.
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At the time, HT didn't do much because software was all single threaded. With today's software being multi-core aware, the P4 will hold up better. Neither will be particularly impressive, but the AthlonXP will choke during multi-tasking.
 
DrDoU said:
2500 barton still running in father-in-law's box.It's all he needs.
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Similar situation. My father is running my old Athlon XP-M 2600+ Barton on a Shuttle AN35N, GF4, and 512 mb of Corsair Value Select.
 
Yes ...I love these too, I have approx. 40+ new in the box Socket A Motherboards, Processors & 3rd party Heatsinks. I probably should sell some, but haven't made the time to make a list of everything.
 
I had an emachines with a Celeron and when I moved to an Athlon XP system I too noticed a significant improvement in performance even when it came to common desktop tasks. But that shouldn't be a surprise as the early Celerons were notoriously gimped in cache memory.
 
Javvis said:
Yes ...I love these too, I have approx. 40+ new in the box Socket A Motherboards, Processors & 3rd party Heatsinks. I probably should sell some, but haven't made the time to make a list of everything.
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:eek:
 
Good times! I used an AthlonXP 2400+ with a 6600GT, it was great for Doom 3, and Half-Life 2! :D
 
wjogert said:
Still have a few XP's kicking around, and still have two setups that run an XP 3200+ w/ dual-channel DDR @ 400FSB. :)
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I had to volt mod my NF2 v1 chipset to hit that 400FSB! First with a pencil, then my first honest to goodness volt mod.
 
Epox 8RDA+ and XP2400M@ 2.5GHz
200x12.5 I didn't save anything that had noted the voltages or BIOS settings.
 
That 2400M is still being used by the guy I sold it to. It's in a Shuttle board now though; the 8RDA+ popped a cap and died *sniff*
 
vazel said:
I had an emachines with a Celeron and when I moved to an Athlon XP system I too noticed a significant improvement in performance even when it came to common desktop tasks. But that shouldn't be a surprise as the early Celerons were notoriously gimped in cache memory.
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You have the emonster!!!
 
Astronomica said:
Still have an Athlon XP 1700+ JIUHB running 2200Mhz with an SLK-800 Cooler. Only thing i've done to it since the day i bought it was replace the deafening vantec tornado with a nice quiet 80mm fan. It's in an abit NF-7 board too, which is probably one of my favorite boards.
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So jealous! I wish I still had mine. Used to run a 1700+ JIUHB DLT3C with an slk-800 cooler with BH-5 ram and a 9700Pro in an EP-8RDA+ OC'd that little guy up to 2.2 or 2.3. I think I'm going to have to build myself a nostalgia rig one of these day :D
 
The ePox 8RDA+ was one of the best Socket A motherboards I've ever had. It did what it was supposed to. Unfortunately, computer got struck by lightning. >.<
 
Cerulean said:
The ePox 8RDA+ was one of the best Socket A motherboards I've ever had. It did what it was supposed to. Unfortunately, computer got struck by lightning. >.<
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Mine got struck by bulging caps :(

I wound up replacing it with a DFI Infinity that was pretty good too

AthlonXP said:
You have the emonster!!!
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LOL my parents had an emonster too! 1 GHz P3
 
Ahhh... Good 'ol Athlon XP.

I remember upgrading from an Intel P3 to an Athlon XP. I actually had two computers with an AMD chip. One was my gaming PC (which I gave away to my cousin) and my 1st HTPC using the Athlon XP-M. Yeah, at the time AMD's Athlon XP performance was better than Intel's P4 series, hence the reason for switching from Intel.

I still have my 1st HTPC with the Althon XP-M tucked away in a closet. I've been trying to get rid of it for couple of years (for free), but had no takers. I haven't fired it up since I retired it in 2008 after building my current HTPC.
 
JaguarSKX said:
Ahhh... Good 'ol Athlon XP.

I remember upgrading from an Intel P3 to an Athlon XP. I actually had two computers with an AMD chip. One was my gaming PC (which I gave away to my cousin) and my 1st HTPC using the Athlon XP-M. Yeah, at the time AMD's Athlon XP performance was better than Intel's P4 series, hence the reason for switching from Intel.

I still have my 1st HTPC with the Althon XP-M tucked away in a closet. I've been trying to get rid of it for couple of years (for free), but had no takers. I haven't fired it up since I retired it in 2008 after building my current HTPC.
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You can send it to me for the price of shipping. :p
 
I have a complete system downstairs with an ASUS A7N-266 and I think a 2200+ XP and a gig of DDR400 with Vista, runs just fine, haven't powered it up in a while because there's absolutely nothing I need it for :(
 
kirbyrj said:
HT became a bigger deal with the 800mhz FSB and the 865/875 chipsets (April/May 2003). The only chip that ran it before that was the 3.06Ghz P4 533 chip which was/is expensive, but ran on most of the older 845PE chipsets. Athlon 64 was later in 2003 (September for the FX-51 IIRC).

I always thought the Northwoods with HT felt smoother than the AXP's, but I rarely used them side by side, so it could have just been my imagination.
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Activate: AMD said:
So jealous! I wish I still had mine. Used to run a 1700+ JIUHB DLT3C with an slk-800 cooler with BH-5 ram and a 9700Pro in an EP-8RDA+ OC'd that little guy up to 2.2 or 2.3. I think I'm going to have to build myself a nostalgia rig one of these day :D
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I've had many of both of these chips... Athlon XP 1700+ OC'd to 2.3 ghz, thing ran awesome. Although the volcano 7+ was screaming loud and it sucked for general usage.

HT is half worthless in my opinion... It gives people a false hope that the CPU is still fast. I had to convince my boss the other day that a Pentium D is faster than a Pentium 4 HT
 
I still have my Applebred Duron 1.6. Anyone remembering how epic that thing was gets major props.
 
Wow, you're all making me feel old. I still have a 485DX4 laptop on top of my bookshelf. Thinkpads never die, they just get so obsolete that you only turn them on as a sideshow.

My old Athlon XP 2500+ is sitting on the corner, still overclocked to 2.4Ghz. Man, that was a good deal. How many current chips overclock 57% on a $40 TT cooler?.
 
Over clocking those Athlon XP's was a lot of fun. I don't know what it was that made it so, but I have yet to experience the same satisfaction when overclocking as I did back then. Maybe I'm just older and have other priorities. Whatever it is, it would be nice to reclaim that level of awesomeness once again.
 
RamonGTP said:
Over clocking those Athlon XP's was a lot of fun. I don't know what it was that made it so, but I have yet to experience the same satisfaction when overclocking as I did back then. Maybe I'm just older and have other priorities. Whatever it is, it would be nice to reclaim that level of awesomeness once again.
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Overclock 'em again. I said the same thing earlier e.g. Socket 462 is still my favorite platform to bench. I just grabbed a couple of T-bred Semprons to bench tonight.:)
 
OptyTrooper said:
Overclock 'em again. I said the same thing earlier e.g. Socket 462 is still my favorite platform to bench. I just grabbed a couple of T-bred Semprons to bench tonight.:)
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its funner the second time, because usually you dont care about the hardware as much and push it rediculous limits.
 
Astronomica said:
Still have an Athlon XP 1700+ JIUHB running 2200Mhz with an SLK-800 Cooler. Only thing i've done to it since the day i bought it was replace the deafening vantec tornado with a nice quiet 80mm fan. It's in an abit NF-7 board too, which is probably one of my favorite boards.
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That set-up you are talking about is probably an overclocking monster. The 1700 oc'ed very well, and the Abit board was top notch oc board at the time.

I just got rid of my Atlon XP set up a week ago. It was a Athlon XP 2000, with a DFI lanparty board. Sweet pc in its time.
 
serpretetsky said:
its funner the second time, because usually you dont care about the hardware as much and push it rediculous limits.
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Don't remember how I did it, but I actually pushed an XP 2000 past its limits. I was probably 14. Didn't know squat about overclocking, but thought i did. So I am playing RS3 RavenShield (which was a bad ass game of the time) at a buddies lan party. When all of the sudden I smelled plastic burning. About 2 seconds later my pc shut down. The diode on the cpu was black. Bye-bye board and cpu
 
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This is the last one I have running. Still makes for a decent test linux server. I had 4 or 5 Athlon XPs in the house at one point. I jumped ship for the Athlon 64s as soon as they came out though...
Code: 
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo                                
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
cpu family	: 6
model		: 10
model name	: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+
stepping	: 0
cpu MHz		: 2087.500
cache size	: 512 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 1
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up
bogomips	: 4184.02
clflush size	: 32
cache_alignment	: 32
address sizes	: 34 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management: ts
 
stryder2720 said:
I built my first system using a 2200+ back in the day. Then I moved to a 2800+ Barton on H2O at 2.8GHz and it was all downhill from there :D I remember I built it so I could play UT2K3 after demoing it my local CompUSA.

Oh shit I found a picture of it!
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Yea boyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!
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Nice. That looks like my old X800 XT PE card I had in my first PC build back in 2004. I had just missed the XP era though and the A64s were smoking everything then. So I had a NF4 mobo paired with an Athlon 4000+ (same as an FX53, just with a locked multiplier). I built that rig for the sole purpose to play HL2 :D. I still have that rig running right now (along side newer rig in sig), but I sold the X850 toward an X1900 XTX after a year or so and it still has that in it. It's actually still a decent gaming rig for 1280x1024 gaming.
 
Personally, I had the DFI Lanparty board...and the Ultra Infinity too...they were both good boards.
 
kirbyrj said:
Personally, I had the DFI Lanparty board...and the Ultra Infinity too...they were both good boards.
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I had the lanparty also. It was so sweet, had the uv pci slots, and ram dimms. What a kick ass board. I was always a big fan of DFI boards. I wanted an ultra infinity but never got one.
 
RamonGTP said:
nForce2... By far the best chipset nVidia ever made.
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yep. and it really went downhill from there, with the possible exception of 790i

does anybody remember the nforce 500 series? Didn't think so :p
 
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