AHH The Good Old Days Of Barton :)

[Zodiark1593]

Funny I was going through all my Old parts Today and found My Old 8RDA3+ Pro board and a 2400+ Mobile Barton put it together just to mess around testing parts anyway can`t remember the volts I should go for on this for OC I got it at 1.575 and it is unstable at 200x10 Does not seem right but it has been years

My parents are still rolling an HP with an Athlon XP 3000+ @ 2.1 GHz. Kicks the crap out of the P4 (3.2 GHz) I'm stuck with at work. (suffice it to say, opening Excel pegs the cpu core, and its fans are audible in the loud environment). Oddly enough, the HDD has not been replaced in all of 8 years, though the mobo sports some SATA ports, so finding a new HDD won't be hard at all. Upgrading the GPU from some VIA igp (worse than any Intel GMA ever) to a Radeon 3450 AGP and throwing in 2 GB RAM (up from 512MB) made for a decent enough Minecraft box for my sis.

Boy, how things have u-turned. Don't the Nehalems still steamroll AMD's best CPU's nowadays.

 

[OS]

Good times, I had a Barton XP-M, heavily overclocked with an AGP 2600XT, it would play Crysis on medium barely.

 

[john3850]

Those were the good days a new chip every few months.
I held on to two pcs my first 1993 pentium with sli 12meg Voodoos and a N7 with a xtpe and a memory voltage booster by ocz.
I also miss epox and there cheap mb.

 

[mikeymikec]

When I moved over to AMD (2001 - present), I went through two boards (the first was a crappy ECS K7S5A with a load of problems) and three processors (upgraded rather than killed), 1800+, 2500+, 3200+. Once I moved on the ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe it was all plain sailing. The only thing I disliked about those processors was the cooling requirements. My current system (Ph2) is a lot quieter (though borderline quiet enough IMO).

 

[lakedude]

Hahah I agree that probably most people (non-tech types) that had a P4 setup were noobs

Or you did video coding with software that was already optimized for the P4...

 

[2is]

2500+ was boss. Especially the mobile variant that could fit into a desktop socket. Overclocked like a champ, and blew everything Intel had out of the water in both price and performance.

Nah, Intel had the Northwood C at the same time as Barton and it was the better performer. Prior to the Northwood C though, AMD had the performance crown, then regained it again with the Athlon 64 and extended the gap with the X2. Lost it when Intel introduced Core 2 and well... Here we are today with no changing of the guard.

 

[86waterpumper]

We still have a barton going at work in the server room haha it's even been overclocked for years as well, doesn't seem to want to die. Main thing that kills me about computer that old is how loud the harddrives were. Nowdays even spindle drives are barely audible

 

[Sheep221]

Last summer I sold My Athlon XP 2500 and Athlon 64 X2 6000, with rams, hard drives, boards, monitors and so on. They served me well for many years.

 

[Puppies04]

Just fixed a system with a XP 1700+ in it for a friend ( he is upgrading to a brand new gaming rig in a few months but wanted something to keep him going) any ideas how far I would be able to push an OC or some ballpark figures for voltages/bclk etc...

 

[Meekers]

Or misled by a best buy employee!

I took went with my grandfather to a CompUSA around that time to help him buy a computer. I got in an argument with the saleman because he kept pushing a much more expensive intel computer that he insisted was much better. To prove his point he took us to look at plain cpu prices. The intel cpu in question was $100+ dollars more expensive and the salesman stated that since the cpu was so much more expensive it had to be much better.

 

[Centauri]

Did you wind up letting him sell your grandfather a Pentium 4 box?

 

[Meekers]

Did you wind up letting him sell your grandfather a Pentium 4 box?

Of course not. I still cannot believe that anyone would make the argument that just because something cost more that it is proof that it is better.

 

[JBT]

I didn't have a Barton but I did have a T-Bred B. AXP 1700 @ 1.466 GHz stock that my girl friend (obviously my wife now!) purchased for me for $50 bucks. Ran it at 2.4GHz (192 * 12.5). I only had Crucial PC2100, which I couldn't get to go any highier. I always wanted to pony up for some better stuff to see what she could really do but alas I was a poor college student.

 

[tweakboy]

Yes the barton was a good one Athlon XP 3200+ OCed to 2.5Ghz under water pc133 memory.. X800XT PE under water also lol..... what was I thinking,,,,,,,


ATI X800 XT PE pownzed lol NOT ,,,,,,,

 

[bononos]

......
I owned both nforce and via chipsets at the time.
To be honest I actually liked via chipsets (kt133/kt133a) although they became weaker in later versions. asus a7v was a great board.
I remember the guy who sold it to me actually apologized a few weeks later, but I had modded it and was overclocking bartons near 2.6GHz so I just smiled.
I think via chipsets got a bad rap for a few key reasons:
win modems
creative sound cards issues (irq conflicts)
and cheap/flaky motherboards/bios like FIC

I thought the bad rap for VIA came from the late Apollos/KT133 generations of chipsets. It wasn't just creative soundcard issues but disk corruption which totally messed up the system. By the time the K8t800 chipset rolled around, VIA was good to go again and was very stable imo but the perception of bad chipsets continued.

 

[homebrew2ny]

Ah, I remember the 'Barton' Days fondly. Here are a few photo's of the PC I was rockin' back then when I was still in to building my own...

 

[jihe]

I didn't have a Barton but I did have a T-Bred B. AXP 1700 @ 1.466 GHz stock that my girl friend (obviously my wife now!) purchased for me for $50 bucks. Ran it at 2.4GHz (192 * 12.5). I only had Crucial PC2100, which I couldn't get to go any highier. I always wanted to pony up for some better stuff to see what she could really do but alas I was a poor college student.

I wish I had a GF that buys me CPU's!

 

[skipsneeky2]

Of course not. I still cannot believe that anyone would make the argument that just because something cost more that it is proof that it is better.

This comment reminds me of when nehalem came out,i got a i7 940 as i feared overclocking a i7 920 and a buddy of mine kept bragging about a recent purchase of a qx9770 for i swear over $1,200.

All i could say is the guy was absolutely clueless nehalem was even out,nor much more powerful.I ended up showing him some benchmarks of the Nehalem chips and i broke his heart.

 

[dawp]

should dig through my collection, still have my soyo kt333, probably a few epox, some with blown caps.

 

[86waterpumper]

I was a big fan of epox boards, I was sad to see them go away...

 

[Face2Face]

I was a big fan of epox boards, I was sad to see them go away...

Haha - that's awesome. I loved my Epox board as well. My dad still has my old XP 2500 Barton in commission. Those were the good ole' days.... I do remember blowing $300+ on my Athlon 64 4000+ - I should have got the Athlon X2 4200 for the same price. Idiot!!

 

[UNhooked]

I had the AIUHB stepping lol. Went rhrough 5 cpus to get this coveted stepping

 

[SithSolo1]

Geez, brings back memories.

The lone picture I still have of my Tbird system:

Iwill KK-266R, 1Ghz Tbird @ 1.1ghz(pencil trick), Alpha PAL8045 w/ 60mm Delta screamer, Radeon 8500(dead fan)

and the one good shot of my Barton:

Abit NF7-S v2, Barton 2500+ @ 2.2ghz, Thermalright SLK-900a w/ 92mm Enermax Compuman, BFG 6800 OC

As you can see, cable management is not a strength of mine.

 

[2is]

Loved those t-birds...

Random friend comes over, you turn the computer on...

Friend: Why is it so loud?
You: Because it's fast!

 

[jumpncrash]

haha! Loved my barton2500 on my via a7v8x-x, I was running a k6/2 500 before that and it just plain blew it out of the water. I held on to it for a few years, then traded ti for a barton 2500+ laptop. My friend I traded it to had it for years before it finally died, I bet it still works they just tore it apart for parts.