Athlon XP barton 2600 aren't as good as TBs!!!

The rating of 2600 Barton xp and 2500 xp are way off compared to 2600 Throughberd. Barton has only a clocked speed of 1.9 ghz compared to the 2.083 ghz speed of the TB. In most case the extra 256kb of cache isn't going to make up for the 183 mhz clock difference at all! The 2500 rating is even worse. Its a whole 283 mhz behind and cache again can compensate for it all. It needs to take much bigger drop than mere 100 PR rating. Only way barton could be better is you OC it! AMD made bad mistake rating those 2 things.

nothing new there.Cache size dont improve much performance on K7/K8 core

I dont like french test

I would not worry too much about juin. He spews a lot of intel pr mis information.

If I glanced at a spilt box of tooth picks on the floor, could I tell you how many are in the pile. Not a chance, But then again I don't have to buy my underware at Kmart.

First of all endyen doesn't know what version of 2600 xp is out there.

endyen, there is 3 VERSIONS of the 2600 xp:
Throughbred A, 2600 at 2.133 ghz at 266 FSB
Throughbred A, 2600 at 2.083 ghz at 333 FSB
Barton, 2600 at 2.083 ghz at 333 FSB

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The main problem with improving cache is that it gains in some places and it doesn't. If you look at the A64 3000 compared to the A64 3200, there isn't much differene in performance even though 3200 has double the cache. Cache can make things fall behind in some place and take ahead in others. Take look at this recent review from anadtech with the 2600 troughbred and 2500 barton:
<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1927" target="_new">http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1927</A>.

I will admit the barton kills 2600 in some places (IE games and business), but in others it fall behind the 2400 xp! You could say it balance out evenly, but old throughbred B 2600 is really more balanced. It doesn't fall behind that much. AMD trying justify things with cache results in stupid stuff like 3200+ barton with sucks. OC a 2500+ to 3200+ is what most ppl do instead of blowing $$ on 3200. Anyhow, just justifying things in cache isn't the best way to go!

It may be equal only in games, otherwise Barton 2600+ will be always slower because of low clock speed

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