Which AMD CPU To Buy??

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