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I would welcome the views of you AMD PC specialists.
I run XP. About 7 or 8 months ago I was going to upgrade my ailing
700MHz Duron for a Barton 2500.
But has the attractiveness of the Barton 2500 approach disappeared
on account of Athlon 64 now being more popular these days?
I don't know much about Athlon 64 expect I have heard that
applications need to be specially writtten and/or compiled to tale
advantage of it. And I guess there is not a whole lot of those
applications around at the moment. But what about the future?
Seems to me that a Barton 2500 is a dead end. So I would not get a
new mobo but put it in my old mobo (Via 266 chipset and 768MB SD-
RAM). Is this the right way to go for now?
I would welcome the views of you AMD PC specialists.
I run XP. About 7 or 8 months ago I was going to upgrade my ailing
700MHz Duron for a Barton 2500.
But has the attractiveness of the Barton 2500 approach disappeared
on account of Athlon 64 now being more popular these days?
I don't know much about Athlon 64 expect I have heard that
applications need to be specially writtten and/or compiled to tale
advantage of it. And I guess there is not a whole lot of those
applications around at the moment. But what about the future?
Seems to me that a Barton 2500 is a dead end. So I would not get a
new mobo but put it in my old mobo (Via 266 chipset and 768MB SD-
RAM). Is this the right way to go for now?