Introduction and System Setup

AMD Athlon XP 1900+ Processor Review

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It has been less than a month since the release of the first wave of Athlon XP processors. The latest release today from AMD is the next speed upgrade in their XP line of processors.

The Athlon XP 1900+ runs at 1.6 GHz frequency and that is the only difference that you will find on the processor itself. The technology and enhancements remain the same, though the performance scales with the new frequency very well. I am not going to cover any of the aspects of what makes the Athlon XP 1900+ tick, but if you are interested in it, I highly suggest you look at my Athlon XP 1800+ Review starting at page 2.

Here is the system setup and benchmarks used in the coming tests:

Test System Setup
CPU 1 x 1.60 GHz AMD Athlon XP 1900+ Processor
1 x 1.53 GHz AMD Athlon XP 1800+ Processor
Motherboard Shuttle AK31 Rev3
Memory 1 x 256MB TwinMOS PC2100 DDR DRAM
Hard Drive 20.5GB 7200 RPM IBM EIDE
Video Card GeForce 3
Video Drivers Detonator 22.40
Operating System Windows XP

Tests:

Quake III: Arena
3DMark 2001
SiSoft Sandra Memory Bench
SiSoft Sandra CPU Bench
Content Creation Winstone 2001
Business Winstone 2001
4 different SPEC view perf tests
Cachemem
ScienceMark
Sysmark 2001

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