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If you have an older socket 462 motherboard with a chip-set limited to 333 Mhz fsb, this is probably the fastest cpu you can take. If you run a light weight operating system (like Windows 98 or maybe a light Linux version), then this cpu will still be useful. I use it for an old Windows 98 gaming computer, but I can also use it to watch videos on youtube (with some tricks, like KernelEx). A good chip that is worth getting if you are keeping an old computer alive.
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Other AMD cpus that I have are working good on my old system. But this one doesn’t work fine. Booting then few seconds after reboot with beeps. many times I tried to fix this trouble with changed PSU and deferent bios settings. but it happens again and again. So I give it up now.
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Seeing how cheaply I could buy a used AMD Athlon XP 3000+ processor or CPU I decided to buy one, replacing the original AMD Athlon XP 2700+ CPU. It's hard to tell if there's any difference: Bootup and shutdown times are about the same, maybe 1 second faster with the 3000+. The Athlon XP 2700+ and 3000+ run have the same clock speed, 2.167 GHz. The only difference I noticed in the specifications is the 3000+ has a 512 KB L2 on chip cache memory versus 256 KB on the 2700+. It does seem my web browser starts faster, again maybe 1 second faster.
Extremely good chip. The one I got can overclock to 2.4 GHz at stock voltage by raising the FSB. Pretty much the best Socket A processor in terms of value - the 3200+ costs more because it was the fastest Athlon XP ever released. Back in the day when this was released, AMD dominated Intel. Intel's offering back then was the Pentium 4, which was very inefficient and generated a lot of heat. The only strong point of the P4 over the XP was SSE performance, and support for SSE2. If this is the first time you've installed a Socket 462 CPU, take heed that mounting heavy coolers improperly can crack the die and destroy the chip. Also, NEVER run one of these without a heatsink - it will overheat and literally be destroyed in seconds. The AMD recommended maximum temperature for this CPU is 85C or 185F. These do tend to run hot. Being one of the later cores (Barton), before you buy this as an upgrade, verify compatibility with your chipset and motherboard.Read full review
I built my wife a new computer for Christmas, and decided to update her old Compaq system and "donate" it to a relative. Athlon 3000+ was the fastest processor that the system board would accept. I found a "new" (unused) 3000+ on eBay and installed that, a new CPU cooler, a new power supply, 2 x the original RAM, and added a case fan. (All from eBay.) The resulting system runs super. New life for an old computer, and much appreciated by the recipient. I'm an AMD fan, and the 3000+, with 1GB RAM, running Windows XP, yields a system more than adequate for surfing and email. Likely under-RAM'ed for Vista, but it might work OK with Windows 7. Even in the era of multi-core processors, the 3000+ is an adequate processor for "grunt work" computing.
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