As a follow up to my Athlon XP 2400+ review I conducted about a week ago, I move on to the XP 2700+. The 2700+ is based on the same core as the 2400+, however this is a "D" chip, which means this one runs on the much faster 166MHz front side bus by default. Make no mistake about it, memory scores will drastically improve as well overall system performance. Experience tells me that the performance increase will be evident in the benchmarks, but will we "really" notice the difference? With AMD's new Barton's out, lower end CPU prices are dropping. Now that the 2700+ costs less, how is price vs. performance? What about overclocking? Let's put this baby to the test and find out!

Basic Specs

CPU: 2167MHz
Cache: 256K
BUS: 333MHz DDR (166MHz FSB)
Socket: Socket-A
Core: Thoroughbred Rev B