MrGaribaldi
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What to buy? Barton or TBred?
Hello
I've suddenly gotten a chance to upgrade my cpu, since I'm going to build a system for my family...
They'll get my Athlon 1.4Ghz, and I'll the cpu of my choosing (within a certani price range)...
My system is:
Asus A7V8X-Gold (onboard LAN and Sound)
256mb PC2700 (soon to be 1GB PC2700 or 512mb PC3200)
Ati Radeon 9700pro
harddrives & such
So the question for me now is:
Which cpu should I get?
I'm torn between the XP2600+ (TBred) and the XP2500+ (Barton)...
I've yet to see much difference between the barton and the tbred in the reviews I've read, but then they only compared a 3000+ barton to a 3.06Ghz...
I wil not overclock it, so how far I can push it won't influence my buying it...
My system is used for: Inet, Programming, Word, Games, Seti@Home and such...
So what would be better?
256kb extra cache? or 250Mhz?
[EDIT]
Fixed the topic from "Baron" to "Barton"
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Hello
I've suddenly gotten a chance to upgrade my cpu, since I'm going to build a system for my family...
They'll get my Athlon 1.4Ghz, and I'll the cpu of my choosing (within a certani price range)...
My system is:
Asus A7V8X-Gold (onboard LAN and Sound)
256mb PC2700 (soon to be 1GB PC2700 or 512mb PC3200)
Ati Radeon 9700pro
harddrives & such
So the question for me now is:
Which cpu should I get?
I'm torn between the XP2600+ (TBred) and the XP2500+ (Barton)...
I've yet to see much difference between the barton and the tbred in the reviews I've read, but then they only compared a 3000+ barton to a 3.06Ghz...
I wil not overclock it, so how far I can push it won't influence my buying it...
My system is used for: Inet, Programming, Word, Games, Seti@Home and such...
So what would be better?
256kb extra cache? or 250Mhz?
[EDIT]
Fixed the topic from "Baron" to "Barton"
[/EDIT]