Which Athlon

[Abeth_Perk]

I'm planning on buy a new athlon XP to replace my 1900 palamino core. I want to buy a chip that is very overclockable so that I can keep the prices down. Which CPU should I get? Please include which stepping into your suggestions.

Thanks, Phil

Drive it like a rental!

 

[svol]

An Athlon XP1700+ or 2100+ with T-bredB and AIUHB core stepping. Or an XP2500+ (Barton) if you like the extre L2 cache.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dims when I turn it on 😱

 

[FDTzeng]

I have the same question - I was looking at the 2500 since its the cheapest chip with official 333FSB support. It also over clocks to like 2GHZ supposedly.

Im wondering how the 2600 and 2700 compare. I know in terms of stock game performance the 2700 is kinda faster and the 2600 kinda slower - but what about overclocking potential? Can they compare to the 2500?

 

[svol]

I think the XP2600+ can OC higher if you look at the percentage of OC compared to the original speed. But they should both do about the same speed... in theory.

The XP2500+ often OCs easily towards 2.2-2.3 GHz.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dims when I turn it on 😱

 

[Nights_L]

Well..
I don't see why you need a new CPU now, I think your Palomino1900+ is still very good enough to do everything and play games, I would suggest you to wait some more, cuz K7 will be out soon (if I'm not wrong..?), then you should wait some more, then buy the best K7 that you can use on your motherboard (XP2800+ or whatever), that's what I will do if I was you

 

[svol]

I think you mean the K8 (also know as (Sledge/Claw)Hammer, Opteron and Athlon 64) of which the server and high-end workstation version (the Opteron) are released today. The desktop K8 comes somewhere in Septembre and is called the Athlon 64. The K7 is the current Athlon core with the Socket A (or 462) platform.

But you're right... why upgrade now? If you don't want to upgrade the motherboard then upgrading now makes sense. But if you want to upgrade the entire system and can wait the K8 might be very interesting.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dims when I turn it on 😱

 

[Nights_L]

True, hehe, sorry a little mistake of typing~

 

[Pablo11]

I'd consider picking up a 2400+ for around $100 USD. In five minutes I went into the bios on my A7N8X deluxe and set the FSB to 166, the memory ratio to 100%, the CPU Interface to aggresive, the memory timings to aggresive,the multiplier to 13.0, the multiplier to user define, and boom: XP2400+ is now an XP2700+ running at 2158 MHz and is totally stable at 333 FSB at 47 degrees C. I downclocked my ram to 333 (two sticks of Corsair XMS 512 CL2 running in dual channel ddr mode) and it runs synchronous with the CPU.

awesome.. fast.. easy... stable...

what more can you ask for?

BTW Thermaltake Volcano 9 running at 5500 RPM(it's really loud!) but it's worth the speed...

JMHO

 

[monkeyspank]

I bought a 1800 XP JIUHB DLT3C really cheap. It clocks to 2.1Ghz with crappy (but very quiet) air cooling. It came factory unlocked. This is the main difference i have found between the 1700 and 1800 chips with this stepping. I can choose any multiplier i want on my kt3 ultra 2.
I can get my fsb up to 190 but i know its my pc2700 ram keeping me there.

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