Barton 3200+

Dorkenstein

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Are Barton 3200+ chips good? I don't have enough for an A64 but I want to be able to run Doom3 when it comes out. Thanks.
 

dennisjai215

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aren't 3200+ XP currently cost more than a a64 2800? you can get a 152$ retail a642800+ and it'll poon any xp
 

Xenon14

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Originally posted by: dennisjai215
aren't 3200+ XP currently cost more than a a64 2800? you can get a 152$ retail a642800+ and it'll poon any xp

nod. Either that or get a 2500+ and o/c to 3200+ for a cheap solution.
 

magomago

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then reinstall windows, and force yourself to backup so if your data ever gets lost due to some kind of failure, you won't kick yourself for being too lazy to backup~
 

Dorkenstein

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Cool, thanks for the link. Although I don't see where it says it's faster than a regular 3200+. And does the chip have to be a mobile?
 

ts3433

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Mobile preferably; unlocked multiplier, draws only 45W at stock, lower standard voltage (1.45V vs 1.65V; more headroom). You'll overclock the FSB anyway but the unlocked multiplier is nice to have.

Also, 2.4GHz on the mobile Barton will be faster than a stock 3200+ (2.2GHz)
 

CraigRT

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Originally posted by: Dorkenstein
Damn, I just have a regular Barton 2500+.

realistically even if you overclock that a bit, it will be enough to run most of whats out there, not at astronomical FPS, but enough.
 

Xenon14

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Originally posted by: Dorkenstein
Really? That sucks bigtime, I just bought one.

the 'bottleneck' is not serious., it's just that the newer video cards happen to be very scalable with faster cpus. You'd get performance boosts from your 2500+ all the way up to the FX-53. The biggest margin, however, exists between the AthlonXP models and the Athlon64.

To squeeze a good amount of power at a pretty safe overclock (even regular 2500+ can handle it w/ proper cooling) o/c the 2500+ to 200FSB to run at 3200+ XP speeds. Personally, I've gotten my 2500+(non-mobile) to 2800+ easily on stock cooling, but i clocked it back until i get good cooling to push it to 3200+ myself. If your ram is 2700 and not 3200 or higher you may have trouble pushing your cpu to 200FSB, so you'll need to increase the multipliers, which is what i did. Preferably, you'd want to increase FSB first as much as you can for more performance, and then close the gap by increasing the multipliers.