Overall conclusion
It's obvious that the new XP range of CPU's are more than your average speed grade increase within a processor family. While they are still Athlon cores at heart and share the same Socket and work on the same motherboards (to a large degree), the new XP CPU's are also a departure from the norm as far as AMD are concerned. With Quantispeed, the new organic package and the new marketing angle, this CPU is very important to AMD. It marks their current CPU flagship, the fastest processor they make and the fastest AMD processor ever outside of their labs.So how have they done? It's obvious that the answer to that question is outstanding. It's faster than Intel's current CPU flagship processor despite losing the Mhz race by a large amount. It runs everything we throw at it without breaking a sweat and we can't fault the performance in any way. Pair it with the KT266A, AMD 760 or possibly an NForce based chipset and you can't go wrong. DDR memory is the key to a quick XP based system but all new AMD systems sold today are DDR so no worries there.
With it being the best CPU we've seen at Hexus to date, we can do no less than give it the Hexus Editors Award. Again, a pleasure working with a new AMD CPU. Lets hope we see quicker ones in the near future because everyone loves more speed. Well done AMD.
