Not an Intel or AMD Fanboy. Hardware system #5, 5a

Up until this system all of the components have been Intel processors on Intel Chipsets.  Maybe I have spent  many more hours repairing, replacing, and upgrading Intel systems than AMD.  Possibly the amount of actual AMD hardware I have laying around is much less.

I am always an equal opportunity builder and recommender when it comes to Intel and AMD processors.  Intel has been many times the software vendors recommendation and AMD always brought excellent value to the table.
If the vendor recommended or only certified Intel, then that is what a customer got.  If not, I always tried to prove how valuable an AMD system could be at a better cost.

AMD has many times brought innovation that made Intel rethink strategy.  The 64-bit AMD processors was one instance where Intel said no one needs 64-bit on the desktop and then went and started adding 64-bit instructions to the processors to compete.

The following hardware was one of AMD's answers to Intel's Pentium 4 processors.  At the time as well many chipset makers were in the running for boards.  AMD, Intel, NVidia, SIS, and Via all made chipsets around the time of the Pentium 4 and Athlon processors.  Now because of licensing agreements and arguments, only AMD and Intel make chipsets for their own processors.  NVidia still has a few out there, but they are getting limited.


Hardware system #5, 5a
#5 CPU AMD Athlon XP 2500+, 1.8Ghz, 1 Core / 1 Thread, 512KB Cache, 333Mhz Rated FSB
Socket 462, Barton 130nm, Stepping 0, Revision A, Multiplier 11x, FSB-166Mhz, MMX, SSE, 3DNow!

#5a CPU AMD Athlon XP 2800+, 2.083Ghz, 1 Core / 1 Thread, 512KB Cache, 333Mhz Rated FSB
Socket 462, Barton 130nm, Stepping 0, Revision A, Multiplier 10x, FSB-166Mhz, MMX, SSE, 3DNow!

Board Soyo Dragon Ultra Platinum RAID edition, Via KT400a / VT8237, Silicon Image SATA RAID, Socket 462, 2 * SATA, 4 * IDE, 6 * USB, 1 * AGP Pro 8X, 5 * PCI

Video No integrated graphics on the Via KT series chipsets.  
Add-In Board NVidia GeForce 6200, NV44
Revision A1, 110nm, PCI, DDR 64-bit, DirectX 9c,
256MB Dedicated Memory, 300Mhz GPU

RAM 2GB (2 * 1GB) Crucial DDR 400,
Running at 333Mhz Dual Channel Mode, CAS 2.5-5-3-7, 2.5V
2047MB Total, 1738MB Free after clean install

Not in use for testing:
Sound C-Media CMI8738 HD Audio 6-Channel
LAN Via VT6102 (Rhine II) Fast Ethernet

Common Components to be used in all tests unless noted otherwise:
Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar Blue 250GB, 7200RPM, 8MB Cache, SATA II 3Gbps
Optical AOpen DUW1608 Dual Layer DVD Writer ATAPI/EIDE
Power Supply 450 Watt 80+ Certified Modular Power Supply
KVM USB KVM with Logitech Optical Mouse, 104 Keyboard, 17" LCD DVI/VGA


Do understand the SATA Hard drive is driven by a separate chip on the board.  The SATA controller is a Silicon Image Sil3112 connected to the PCI bus of the chipset.  It is a PCI to 2 Port SATA150 chip.
More information about the chip can be found here:




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