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Hi all -
Regarding Athlon XPs with Thoroughbred and Barton cores, is the extra cache the only difference in the Barton? If I buy a motherboard that is capable of a 333 or 400 FSB, does that mean it can definitely take a Barton?
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Check the web site of your mobo manufacturer and it should tell you whether it will take the barton. I would think that since the board will do 333 and 400 fsb that there shouldnt be a problem using a barton. I guess it depends on what voltage settings and multipliers the board can handle. I know the Nforce2 boards will take a barton with no problem, so I would think the others would too.
Anyone else know?
Yes the main difference is that the barton has 512k of cache instead of 256. Not sure if there are anyother big diffs.

Reply to sturm

That would be odd for the board to not take Barton, but be rated for 400 MHz

Reply to jp5

A Barton is just a Thoroughbred with extra cache but a lower clock speed. They're basically the exact same core though so any mobo that will take one will take the other.

Unless you're digging up some ancient mobos, all that you really have to worry about in a mobo is that it'll take the FSB that the chip is rated at. (Well, that and that it's SocketA of course. Good luck fitting a Barton into a P4's socket. Heh heh.)

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