barton now on pricewatch

[touchmyichi]

go check pricewatch, the 3000+ is there! It is a little over 600 dollars, yikes! The 2500+ barton is also there, at a resonable price of 200 dollars.

 

[Duvie]

None of them are available as of yet...will only be preorders...rumor has it 2/7-2/10 for the 2800+ barton and later for the 3000+...I haven't heard of whether the 2500+ comes out at same time as 2800+ or is late february after the 3000+....

AMD is going to coincide this with reviews so I doubt any retailer can let the cat out of the bag until the official announcement....

 

[mechBgon]

I found one teensy preview, mentioned it in this thread: 20% OC on stock voltage, air cooling If that's representative of 2500+'s then I'm strongly interested in one to go in my new 8RDA+. Combining 333MHz bus with more cache would be a nice boost over my 1700+.

 

[dannybin1742]

so would it be good to assume that all the barton will be made at the dresden fab since amd is going to stop producing chips at TSMC or was it UMC (i can't remember)

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I'm awaiting some end-user feedback on the new Bartons as I'm itchin' to build a AMD box for myself again, so hurry up with the evaluation already you guys

 

[touchmyichi]

Does anyone know if nforce 2 will unlock multipliers on these?

 

[mechBgon]

It will. Read the thread I linked to above, and follow on to the review I posted there.

 

[SickBeast]

from what i've read, the barton is unfortunately not substantially faster than a normal athlon xp. i'll wait for the reviews before i make up my mind tho. i wonder if these chips will run in my abit kx7-333...

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

i found a store up here in canada selling them...but not in stock...so im guessing they are just pre orders or something

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Ofcourse they won't be substantially faster, but it will boost peformance at least a little. The extra cache when the P4s went Northwood didn't seem to do a whole lot at first, but IMO it probably did the most to save the P4, that and the great overclocking success via the .13 fab process. The P4 definately need that performance boost right out of the box as I'm sure the vast majority of P4s are untweeked. The overclocking success saved Intel in the tweeking crowd as the old P4s weren't very exciting overclockers. AMD kind of shot themselves in the foot stepping up the Athlons. In one fell swoop Intel doubled the L2 cache and shrunk the die of the P4 with great success. On the other hand AMD failed to convert to .13 with the Tbred A barely getting much more than the Palomino could offer @ 2100+ as I believe the 2200+ is the fastest stock retail Tbread A. Needed to fix that AMD pumped out the Tbred B allowing them to step up the clock rate which is what they really needed. Tweekers can now really push the Athlon with the Tbred B with many enthusiasts hitting speeds anywhere from 2 to 3 GHz with 2.4GHz not being hard for most everyone to touch. One problem, AMD still left out the extra L2 cache. Now we need Barton. Intel did in one swoop that AMD is now taking in 3. Kinda sucks, would have been really nice to have seen Barton in the fall last year instead of when we will see it, which is hopefully just a few more days.

AMD has to have some justification in giving a 1.83 Ghz CPU a PR of 2500+ when they also have a 2 GHz CPU with a 2400+ title...