Thoroughbred or Palomino?

[John_Ryan07]

I'm building myself a budget system and have narrowed it down to 2 processors: the 1800+ Thoroughbred, or the 1900+ Palomino. I plan on overclcocking and i hear the thoroughbred is better for it. any help would be appreciated, thanks.

 

[Guest]

Captain Obvious says this is definately a no brainer!

If you can find one, get a XP1700+ or XP1800+ TbredB. They overclock to 2Ghz and beyond quite easily.

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[John_Ryan07]

do you mean they overclock to 2000+ easily or to an actual 2ghz? thanks for the reply

 

[Guest]

Captain Obvious says no, a full 2Ghz is easily obtainable. XP2400+ speeds or greater with quality cooling!

Assuming you can find one of course. They are becomming hard to find now.

Captain Obvious also recommends the Barton XP2500+ (1833Mhz) for overclocking!


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[John_Ryan07]

wow thats pretty insane, lol. thanks for the help. im gonna get the 1800+, but i don't know if its a Thoroughbred-b, i'm getting the retail one from newegg... http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?description=19-103-353

 

[Guest]

Captain Obvious says yes, thats the obvious one to go for!

Its a Thoroughbred and they dont make or sell TbredA's anymore, so it must be a B!

Captain Obvious tells you to look here! <A HREF="http://www.cpudatabase.com" target="_new">http://www.cpudatabase.com</A>

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[John_Ryan07]

awsome thanks for the help

 

[umala]

Hi Captain

Unfortunately, I have already a Palomio 1900+. I have try to overclock it but only can get 2000 +, which is rather disappointed.
I can only increase the FSB to about 140 from default of 133. The ratio is 4:2:1 and BIOS allows me to change to 5:2:1. But that changes does not work.
Why and it is possible to do more.

Thanks

 

[pitsi]

No, unfortunatelly for you that's all you can do with a Palomino. I can say that you are even lucky you managed to go up to 2000+ !!! Btw, what motherboard you have? From what you 've said about ratios, my guess is that with your current mobo, you will not even be able to overclock a Tbred-B 1700+, which is known to be an excellent chip for overclockers.

 

[Nights_L]

a Barton 2500+ will be a better choice currently..no?

 

[TKH]

No, because the mobo he has can only support AthlonXP up to 133MHz, so basically the legendary Thoroughbred-b 1700+ would be his favourite if he doesn't want to change the mobo.

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[Spitfire_x86]

If the 1800+ is T-bred "B", then it's way better than palomino for overclocking.

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[Nights_L]

Which mobo he has?

 

[TKH]

Ignore my post. Give you an advise: too much alcohol confuse you.

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[addiarmadar]

Thoroughbred,,, PERIOD!

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[pIII_Man]

piii_Man thinks that captin obvious goofed.

Its a Thoroughbred and they dont make or sell TbredA's anymore, so it must be a B!

piii_Man has seen and heard of many low end tbreds using DLT3C tbred A cores being shipped from AMD using the AIRGA stepping with recent production dates post 2003.

Therefore piii_Man recomends a barton core cpu.


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