AMD's Athlon XP 1900+ (1.6GHz): Still #1
by Anand Lal Shimpi on November 5, 2001 12:40 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
Faster XP platforms: Don't leave home without one
We conducted our original Athlon XP review using one of the first publicly available motherboards based on VIA's KT266A chipset: the EPoX 8KHA+. If you're considering an upgrade to the Athlon XP we'd strongly recommend against it unless you already have a fast platform. With KT266A motherboards selling for at or below the $100 mark, there's very little reason to not upgrade an aging KT133A to a faster DDR platform first before considering a CPU upgrade. The fact that DDR SDRAM is also so very cheap helps lighten the load on your wallet when upgrading.
Our test platform, the EPoX 8KHA+ hasn't changed in this review either. As we proved in our initial KT266A motherboard roundup, the EPoX is a very well rounded board that currently outperforms the other shipping KT266A based solutions.
The Test
As was the case with our original Athlon XP review, we have run all of our benchmarks under a final shipping version of Windows XP Professional. We disabled System Restore and followed Microsoft's directions for benchmarking under Windows XP to obtain repeatable results. We enabled all visual options including anti-aliased fonts.
SYSMark 2001 was run with the Athlon XP's SSE instructions enabled. For more information on why they are disabled by default read our explanation entitled: SYSMark 2001: The Benchmarking Controversy.
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Windows XP Test System |
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Hardware |
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CPU(s) |
AMD
Athlon XP 1.60GHz (1900+) AMD Athlon XP 1.53GHz (1800+) AMD Athlon XP 1.47GHz (1700+) AMD Athlon XP 1.40GHz (1600+) AMD Athlon XP 1.33GHz (1500+) AMD Athlon-C 1.40GHz |
Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.9GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz |
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| Motherboard(s) | EPoX EP-8KHA+ | ABIT TH7-II RAID (Intel 850) | |||||
| Memory |
256MB
PC800 Mushkin RDRAM |
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| Hard Drive |
IBM Deskstar 30GB 75GXP 7200 RPM Ultra ATA/100 |
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| CDROM |
Phillips 48X |
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| Video Card(s) |
NVIDIA GeForce3 64MB DDR |
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| Ethernet |
Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter |
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Software |
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Operating System |
Windows XP |
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