AMD Athlon XP 1800+

"One of the best features of the Athlon XP is its compatibility with older Socket A motherboards. This is convenient for the consumer as replacing a CPU is much easier than replacing a motherboard. Simply upgrading a Spitfire Duron to a Palomino Athlon XP gives a very nice performance increase despite the limited RAM bandwidth. If you are short on cash, this is probably your best bet."

"The Athlon XP 1800+ is extremely fast, and delivers simply incredible performance. There's no doubt in our minds that the XP 1800+ will make power-users and performance-mavens very happy indeed. Even when set against the Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz and 2GHz, the Athlon XP 1800+ refused to back down, and often managed to defy convention by posting performance figures that surpassed those of its harshest competitor."

"...the Palomino core of the XP gives a substantial boost in performance thanks to data prefetch and SSE. This performance was expected, and will likely propel the 1800+ ahead of the 2GHz P4 with no debate. Performance is not the main issue with AMD however."

"...I feel strongly that the Athlon XP is a great addition to AMD family and to the computer industry in general."

"AMD has had a winner on thier hands since they released the original Athlon series of processors, the XP is the latest and greatest, for now at least, in AMD's line up."