Setup & Components

For our AMD 4000+ Processor review we decided to do away with our older Asus AV8 Deluxe Motherboard, we wanted one of the latest PCI-Express based boards with good memory support. We decided to go with a Sapphire Axion RS380AS9-A58S Socket 939 Motherboard, while this isn't the most advanced on the market right now it does the job well for us. Instead of going with onboard sound we also added a SoundBlaster Audigy 2 sound card, we have also added 2 Gigabytes of Dual Channel Memory, although most of  you can get by with just the 1 Gigabyte, as we use this machine for all of our main reviews we went with more, and the Crucial Ballistix Memory is excellent.

• Athlon 64 4000+ ClawHammer
• Akasa AK-913 Evo 33 Cooler
• Sapphire Axion RS480AS9-A58S Socket 939 Motherboard
• 2gb Crucial Ballistix PC3200 DDR400 Memory
• Crucial ATI X850 XT 256MB PCI-Express Graphics Card
• Sound Blaster Audigy 2
• 1-Maxtor MaxLine III NCQ 250GB 7L250SO SATA 16MB Cache Hard Drive
• 1-80 GB Western Digital 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive
• 1-Maxtor OneTouch II 250GB External Firewire/USB 2.0 16MB Cache Hard Drive
• Sony Dual Layer DVD-RW DRU700A Drive
• GDI Black Gold Digital TV Card
• Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop
• Antec 480 Watt NeoPower PSU
• Apple 20" Anodized aluminum Cinema Display

For future reviews our system will be getting better but this is our starting block. Our reviews will cover the mainstay - Windows performance along with benchmarks and information from a range of programs that many of our readers will use such as Doom 3, Half Life 2, Farcry, 3D Mark 2005 and more. In this review we will also be checking out Windows X64 performance.

Processor Specifications