Barton 2500+ owners: When are you planning on upgrading?

[GeneralGrievous]

I am mainly talking about desktop Barton owners. I got mine last April and it's beginning to show its age.

 

[DaNorthface]

hahah, i'm planning to upgrade my duron 800@1000 to a barton..

 

[Dman877]

My mom is using a Barton 2500+ and will be using it for prolly another year when I upgrade and pass my stuff down.

 

[ectx]

Personally, I am waiting till socket 939 Athlon 64 chips sell at a reasonable price (unless I can find a 754 Athlon 64 3200+ setup at low enough pice). <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://overclockers.com/tips00588/">
they are too expensive now</a>

For someone who already hase a regular baron ocing to 2.3-2.4g, I'd say: wait. If he has a slower setup, then it may make sense to find a mobile barton that can oc to 2.4-2.5g, which, to me, can stay work pretty decently for at least 6-12months.

 

[wampa]

Yea, for me I just recently upgraded to a 2500 xp barton. Of course it is overclocked to 3200xp speeds. I think I'll upgrade my motherboard and CPU in a year or so. By then hopefully PCI express motherboards and video cards will be abundant. Right now the 2500xp is plenty fast for surfing the internet and playing games.

 

[pelikan]

I'm waiting to see which 754 mb shows itself to be the best overclocking board. And to keep myself busy in the mean time I just ordered a mobile 2600 to play with. I'm shooting for 2800 MHz with chilled water.

 

[Steg55]

Heh, I want some new RAM before I think of replacing my Barton - then I can finally get the performance it is capable of. I tested it with some friends BH-5 and got the FSB up to 210 on stock volts (1.65v) so with some decent RAM this CPU should really fly.

I probebly won't replace it until I have a fat wodge of cash and the price of 939 A64s and PEG GeForce 6s has come down. Then I can go for a full blown Doom3/HL2/UE3 munching system

Steg

 

[BlvdKing]

I will be upgrading in mid June. I am having trouble deciding between a P4 Northwood 3.2 with HT or an AMD64 on 939... I play games and some media encoding (MP3's). I might get into encoding DVDs soon as well. Both are so good that I am torn between the two.

 

[Sid59]

my rig is barely a year old. ognna wait till 939 matures and skip ahead.

im hoping i hit the strive when XP 64 bit comes out / 64 bit drivers in mass /

 

[NokiaDude]

I'll most likely buy another stick of 512mb Kingston HyperX DDR333 RAM first before buying an A64+ CPU and mobo. Might even stick a 3200+ in my AT7-MAX2 before upgrading.

 

[rogue1979]

I guess I'm moving backwards. I built a system with a Duron 1.4GHz and a Biostar micro-atx Nforce2 board. Multiplier locked at 10.5 x 200 with some crappy ram at 11-3-3-2.5. I went with a silent set-up in a micro-tower, custom fans in the case and power supply. Topped it off with a Radeon 8500 128MB @300/300.
Put a custom handle on it and carry it back and forth to work everyday. It is quiet, small and honestly I can't tell much of a difference from my 2500+@3200+ rig which sits at home collecting dust.

I finally updated my 9 year old son's rig to a 2500+@3200+ with a Radeon 9700Pro. Unless I am trying to play Halo or Unreal 2004 at 1280 x 1024, I don't notice much of a difference except for the awful noise.

So I am in no hurry to update for awhile, unless I get hooked on a game my current rigs can't play. Heck, alot of the time I just use my old PII 400MHz server with Win98, Firefox and all Microshaft crap pulled out to post in here. Runs great!

 

[SneakyStuff]

I just build a rig based on the 2800+ Barton. I'll overclock it when it starts to show its' age. I made this rig for the sole purpose of holding out until new technologies come out and mature. I'm waiting for BTX, DDRII, PCI-E 16x, PCI-E, and a SATA standard for all devices. Hey, it only cost me $370 to build it all too so i'm not complaining

 

[Corey0808]

I just upgraded to a barton a couple of months ago from a 850mHz T-Bird. I think I will be keeping it for a couple years anyways.. I'm going to get the last AGP video card released too I think to get the most use out of my motherboard... By the way I have a Barton 2500+ Mobile at 2.5 gHz

 

[Anubis]

i just installed my mobile 2400+ 2 weeks abo, its running at 2.3 GHz i plan on getting it to 2.4 at least in a lil, ill hve it for well over a year, most likely 2 years, unless i win the lottery of course

 

[dejacky]

I don't see myself upgrading until ~2 years . I'll probably end up running a 2.5-2.6Ghz AthlonXP barton on 216Mhz FSB. It should be fine. What do you all think of that setup? It should last me fine for the next 2 years right?

 

[rogue1979]

Originally posted by: dejacky
I don't see myself upgrading until ~2 years . I'll probably end up running a 2.5-2.6Ghz AthlonXP barton on 216Mhz FSB. It should be fine. What do you all think of that setup? It should last me fine for the next 2 years right?

Should be more than enough. Maybe wait until the 9700/9800Pro drops below $100 and update the video card if you run out of gaming power.

 

[nemesismk2]

I will upgrade my xp2500-m @2.5 Ghz early next year because my pc is performing really well right now!

 

[Megatomic]

My desktop 2500+ system will not be ugraded until I can afford to get a Socket 939 A64 system based on the NF3-250Gb Ultra. At 2.3GHz my system is fast enough for everything I do. I'm not hurting for more performance yet.

 

[SammieC]

Yep, I hear that mega...Just upgraded to this mobile 2600 to play with until the a64's drop somewhat..also jumped my 9700 pro to a 9800 pro AIW to tide me over for a while.

But I really try to get all my buds that need a cheap upgrade to go 2500 barton, for the price and performance, well it can't be beat.

 

[McArra]

Already changed it

 

[Swanny]

I'm thinking I'll upgrade at the end of the summer before I go to college.

Hopefully I'll be able to get a S939 A64 and PCI Express by then.

 

[high]

probably upgrading in the fall....went from a 2500+ desktop to Mobile...good way to make it last a year and a half

 

[MDE]

Waiting for BTX, PCI-E, and Socket 939 to saturate the market.

 

[upsciLLion]

Originally posted by: MDE
Waiting for BTX, PCI-E, and Socket 939 to saturate the market.

How long do you guys figure it'll take for this to happen?

 

[SneakyStuff]

As soon as I can get this temperature fiasco i'm having under control i'm gonna OC my 2800+ to 3400+ and hopefully that'll last me another year or 2, at least until longhorn comes out I think my answer lies in AS5