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On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 18:44:15 -0500, David Maynard <dNOTmayn@ev1.net>
wrote:
>no_spam wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 18:01:54 GMT, me!! <pwrberry@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>Is it worth upgrading to a amd64 2800+ from a xp3200+?
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>> I've got a 2800 and K8T800 motherboard, and it's about the same as an
>> XP3100
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>What are you using to 'measure' this?
Ok 3100, 3300. Is there a difference in real life ? I'm being
gracious since the guy already owns a XP3200.
I suspect some people read Anand's amd64 2800 review and didn't notice
the athlon XP cpu tested was a XP 3000 running with a 333mhz FSB.
That's good marketing, eh ?
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2038
A slightly more comparable review with an XP3200 is at
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=33
The 2800 wins some benchmarks over a xp3200 but loses enough that a
prudent person wouldn't get overly excited about it. An overclocked
mobile 2600 would probably smoke them both on a lot of tests.
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>> It does run cooler though, and it's memory functions are very good.
>> And since I upgraded from a PIII, I'm not too disappointed.
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>> The question though is how well it will overclock with a good Nforce3
>> 250gb motherboard and PC4000 (or better) ram. I suspect it should get
>> up to a AMD64 3100-3200 range easily. Sadly my current motherboard
>> don't overclock too well
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>> The 2800 has a multiplier of 9 and it looks like people drop the
>> multiplier when overclocking with higher hypertransport speeds; so it
>> may be a good choice. Prices have dropped.
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