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2700+ T-Bred B Versus 2500+ Barton - Which should I buy?

brigden

brigden

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I'm currently running an 1800+ and I plan on upgrading my processor in the next few weeks. I'm either going to pick up a 2700+ T-Bred or a 2500+ Barton. The Barton has twice the cache, but at 1.83GHz, it's almost 350MHz slower than the 2.17GHz T-Bred. I mainly use my system for gaming.

What do you guys recommend I buy?
 
Also, since the 2500+ is at the low end of the bartons it generally has some excellent headroom for overclocking. I have a motherboard which unlocks the multiplier for me and i changed my 2500+ into a 2800+ just by upping the multiplier from 11 to 12.5. Haven't had a problem since.
 
hjo3, I checked out those benchies (thanks) and the 2700+ beat the 2500+ every single time. The only time the Barton was ahead was once it was OCed. I won't be OCing.
 
2500+, even if you're not overclocking (EDIT: Performance wise, even if 2700+ is a bit faster than 2500+ default clock speeds, the price/performance ratio goes to the 2500+) . Retail cooling i got mine to 2ghz, easily (51 celcius). But I clocked it back down. Gonna push it to at least 3000+ when I get new HSF, and I don't even have the popular stepping.
 
If you're not ocing.. The 2700+ without a doubt!.. And personally I would probably still go with the 2700+ if you are going to oc, assuming you have a really good hsf. In my experience the extra cache makes for up less than 100 mhz. The average OC of a 2700+ @ overclockers.com database is 2509 mhz while the average of the 2500+ is only 2295 mhz.
it also depends on what u r gonna use it for. Some apps favor extra cache, some an extra 200 mhz.
 
Like I said, it's mainly for gaming. I think games would benefit from the extra clock speed, rather than the extra cache. Price isn't a factor, the difference is negligble.
 
hey how simple is this: the number 2700+ is bigger than the number 2500+, thus you should get the bigger number which is faster. ergo, get the 2700+ unless you dont like speed
 
Originally posted by: hjo3
Sure, here's one.
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Did you even read that article 😕 the Tomshardware article has the 2700+ beating the 2500+ in almost every situation. In fact, the only benchs the 2500+ wins are PCmark and Sandra mem benchs. I think you were looking at the scores for a Barton@2.5ghz 😉
 
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