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AMD ATHLON XP 2700+ vs. INTEL PENTIUM 4 2.8GHz

AMD ATHLON XP 2700+ vs. INTEL PENTIUM 4 2.8GHz
Sunday December 01, 2002
Written by Daniel Gardiner
Tags: AMD | ATHLON | XP | 2700+ | vs | INTEL | PENTIUM | 4 | 2.8GHz
AUD
$650
Price at time of review.
The Athlon XP 2700+ represents a significant leap forward for the Athlon line – it solves a long-term problem by stepping up the default frontside bus (FSB) speed from 266MHz to 333MHz. This means that the Athlon XP can finally run in sync with 333MHz DDR RAM. While most currently available Athlon motherboards support 333MHz DDR, there is virtually no performance boost between this and 266MHz DDR when running an Athlon XP with a 266MHz FSB. The extra speed offered by the RAM quite simply goes to waste, because the CPU can't keep up with it.
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