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First of all I would like to point out that this chip is not RETAIL its AXDA2100DUT3C witch is great overclocker so keep in mind you might not be able to get as much speed from it as I did.
On Friday little AXDA2100DUT3C arrived to my office, I took CPU out of plastic case and put her in a new home, a nice asus a7n8x deluxe with 256x2 pc3200 XMS ram.
After booting up and launching asus port probe we noticed temps were below average because it was pretty cold in New York today so I was happy that I didn't need to put case near open window when I overclock this chip.
Cpu temps were showing as 27c on load with Volcano 7+ at max speed and artic silver 3 paste at stock settings. Are you ready for some benches?
First is benchmark that was done at stock speeds.
CPuZ:
Sandra:
Sandra's multi-media benchmark, notice the score of P4 running at 2ghz our 2100+ pretty much killed it and 2100+ usually goes for under 100$ online.
Sandra MM:
PCmark:
Now some overclocking benchmarks here what we got 'her' up 100% stable:
Overclocked CPuZ:
Impressive!!! Over 600mhz overclock, I bet you can't wait to see benchmarks so here is sandra's arithmetic benchmark.
Overclocked Sandra:
As you can see it performs almost like XP 3000+ for UNDER 100$ great just great, here is nice multi-media benchmark.
Overclocked Sandra MM:
PCmark:
As you can see this is really good cpu, you wont notice really big speed burst if you go from xp 1800+ to 2100+ at stock speeds and I would recommend getting 333fsb cpu as an upgrade instead of 2100+ unless you are great overclocker then this chip is for you, little tip: buy good water cooling or at least good hsf unit before you try to overclock anything.
Finally here the performance tester side by side benchmarks:
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