Athlon 3000+ for DTR Notebooks

[Dispenser4HIRE]

New Egg has the Athlon 3000+ for moble DTR notebooks for $148.

Dose the moble Athlon 64 have all the advantages of the XP moble?
Does it fit in a desktop MB and it is unlocked?

Would this be significantly faster than the XP 2500 for gaming?

Thanks for any info.

 

[ts3433]

It can go in some desktop motherboards, but it is not fully unlocked (multipliers below stock on all A64s are unlocked, though). If you're looking to overclock an A64, a Winchester is a better bet anyway.

An A64 would be significantly faster than an XP2500+, but other factors determine whether or not that will be worth it for your situation.

 

[Dispenser4HIRE]

I thought that it would be a good chip because it has 1 mb of L2 cache vs the 512 for most chips in it's price range.

I would be running a DFI Lanparty MB with the 754 chip 1 gig memorey vs XP 2500 on ASUS A7NXE mb with 1 gig mem.

I was looking at the 754 board vs 939 because I have a gig of Corsair memory I would like to use in the new system

 

[ts3433]

It does have 1MB of cache, but that doesn't make much of a difference versus 512K at all (NC 3400+ versus CH 3400+ showed that the extra 200MHz far outweighed the loss of 512K in cache). You're really better off getting a Winchester, or at least a Newcastle if you're going to buy 754 to use your 1x1GB DIMM.

 

[Dispenser4HIRE]

Thank you for your help.

 

[imported_a314sces]

excaliberpc.com has it for $118 + $5 shipping, just a heads up.