Tom's Hardware Guide CPU Guide: Clash Of The OC'd Titans: Athlon XP 2300+ vs. Pentium 4/3000 - Speed Euphoria: AMD vs. Intel - Who's Ahead?

It might sound like a standard topic, but in reality it's quite dramatic: the AMD Athlon XP 2300+ challenges the Intel Pentium 4/3000. We've overclocked these two processors to the extreme, and in the end, they bedazzle with performances that will not be available on the market for another nine months. After all, with their latest offerings, the two manufacturers tout their respective processors as representatives of maximum performance levels. The task of coaxing that maximum performance out of the two competitors presented us with a particular challenge, but it was all done under conditions for absolutely stable operation.