XP 2500 "Barton" 333 FSB Oppinons needed

[netmessiah]

OK I saw newegg has this for like $80ish. Does anyone have this cpu and is willing to give me their oppinion on it? Is it worth buying? I dont know if I will oc it so would I be better have getting another amd chip? What motherboard are u using for it if you have it? Thanks!

 

[pIII_Man]

I don't have it but it is a great chip for the money...some overclock to 2.5ghz on air cooling...so if you are looking for an upgrade and overclock...this is a great cpu.

There is no smell better than fried silicon

 

[slvr_phoenix]

There is no smell better than fried silicon

Except perhaps the smell of petrol right before the match hits...

"<i>Yeah, if you treat them like equals, it'll only encourage them to think they <b>ARE</b> your equals.</i>" - Thief from <A HREF="http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=030603" target="_new">8-Bit Theater</A>

 

[pIII_Man]

don't give me too many ideas

There is no smell better than fried silicon

 

[smitbret]

Great chip, especially for the price. If you want AMD right now, this is by far the best value.
-Brett

 

[piasabird]

I just built an AMD computer with a XP2400+ CPU and an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherobard with a Sapphire Radeon 9000 video card, and 512MB of Crucial RAM. Runs great, no problems whatsoever. The Motherboard also supports the latest Memory and the latest AMD CPUs through XP3200+.

The XP2500 has the faster Bus and more cache memory so it must be great.

when you see smoke is that a good sign?

 

[sturm]

Just built a system with the barton 2500+, MSI K7N2G-l board. No problems and fast as hell! Thought about overclocking it but could only change FSB. Since its for my sister-in-law and she doesnt need the extra speed I didnt mess with it. Boot time to windows xp pro was about 25 seconds.

 

[slvr_phoenix]

Isn't boot time primarily affected by hard drive speed?

"<i>Yeah, if you treat them like equals, it'll only encourage them to think they <b>ARE</b> your equals.</i>" - Thief from <A HREF="http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=030603" target="_new">8-Bit Theater</A>

 

[sturm]

Boot time is affected by cpu speed,memory and hard disk. if your low on memory, say 128 or less, the computer will need more virtual memory/page file which is slow. If your running 512 meg or more the computer can load everything into memory and not use the page file. If the cpu is slow it wont matter what your hard drive speed or memory is. A 7200 rpm drive will boot faster than a 5400 rpm drive although not much slower. Drives running on an ata 100/133 will boot faster than one on ata33/66.
Soooo, many things afect boot time especially the number of programs you have running at boot: virus scan, messenger programs, Kazaa and such. With windows XP/2000 you can cut down on boot time and memory usage by disabling or setting to manual many of the services that arent needed for you computer.
Check here for info:
<A HREF="http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm#Universal_Plug_and_Play_Device_Host" target="_new">http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm#Universal_Plug_and_Play_Device_Host</A>

 

[pIII_Man]

The ata interface of a drive should have no real effect on how fast windows loads because most drives cannot transfer more than 33mb/s contiuosly.

There is no smell better than fried silicon

 

[pIII_Man]

also it does sound logical that a faster cpu will have a faster boot up...however i have not noticed a damn thing in the boot time of my computer after overclocking...my pIII is overclocked by 35% and so far there has been little if any effect on boot up.

There is no smell better than fried silicon

 

[Jake_Barnes]

What speed is the memory - (PC2700?). What is the standard timings?


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