As a platform, I'm pretty impressed. 200MHz front side bus can't hurt and the DDR memory infrastructure has long been in place to support the move. nForce2 Ultra 400 takes things forward a little and provides a good home for the new CPU.

Last week we saw how AMD's first processor featuring the Barton core faired. Today we take a look at the second processor to get the Barton treatment, the XP 3200+.

So let's just run over the specs of the new 3200+. Firstly, it runs on the 400MHz Front Side Bus, compared to the 333 of the 3000+. Now, this means one thing : okay, two. This means two things : faster CPU access, and faster memory access.

We reviewed a new AMD processor, which is none other but AMD’s response to Intel Pentium 4 3.0 with 800MHz bus. Just like Intel, AMD has also increased the bus frequency and Athlon XP 3200+ now works with 400MHz PSB. Now let’s find out if the new bus will be able to help improve the performance of the new AMD processor.

With today’s release of the Athlon XP 3200+, Athlons are now available in 400 MHz FSB, meaning synchronous 400/400 system speed support.

AMD comes charging out of the gate on the 400 MHz Front Side Bus Athlon XP 3200+. Frame rates are going to jump as AMD continues to push the performance envelope. The Athlon XP 3200+ is here and we took a unique twist to the round of benchmarks. Should the 3200+ be on your shopping list? A lot depends on what you have already.

Today see's the launch of the AMD XP Barton 3200+. In the past 6 months we've seen the introduction of the 0.13micron manufacturing process with the Thoroughbred cores (T-bred) and two later revisions of that core. The first being the Rev B T-bred which seemed to significantly improve the thermal characteristics of the chip, which in turn increased the ability to increase the core clock and free up the possibilty to release faster models.