Which AMD CPU To Buy??

[mindlor]

Hi,

Building new PC,

Can get:

AMD 1700++ retail = 65.00US
AMD 2000++ retail = 86.00US
AMD 2100++ retail = 100.00US
AMD 2200++ retail = 125.00US
AMD 2400++ retail = 160.00US
AMD 2600++ fsb 333 retail = 260.00US
AMD 2500++ fsb 333 barton core, soon to be released 200.00US

The barton 2500+ is attractive as it has the 333 FSB and the 512K L@ cache. However, she will only be running at 1.813 Ghz I believe.

I have seen some initial benchmarks of the 2500+ and they look good but sometimes even the 2400+ T-Bred beats it due to the mere fact that the freq is higher.

Now let it be said that initial results show that with non-stock air cooling the 2500+ will be able to o'clock by 25% with no voltage increase. So, roughly that will give us a 360 Mhz boost taking us to 2.1 Ghz or so. With the OC, the Barton 2500+ seems to handily kick azz

So, all things considered....where is the price vs performance sweet spot? From what I understand the Barton 2500+ should be available within the next 2 weeks

Thanks for the input

Mindlor

 

[lhgpoobaa]

yes. the barton should be good, expecially if you are considering overclocking it.
2.2 to 2.4Ghz should be easily obtainable.
And that extra chache helps with things like games and rensdering and encoding.


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