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Help me choose XP2800+ or XP2500!

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Loobusk

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Greetings! Very soon (like in a week) Ill be putting together a brand new system for mostly gaming... I have another thread in the main forum link , which lists everything I'm planning on getting. I've been wondering though whether I should save an extra 80$'s or so and get an XP 2500 barton , instead of the 2800.The reason I don't want to get the P4's are due to the fact that I'll have to pay more for a seperate sound card which will run me over my budget. So I'm planning to stick with AMD for now.
thanks
 
get the 2500+. AMD is getting the max yields that they prolly ever will with the athlon xp, and the majority of 2500+ are really 3200+ in disguise... I myself just changed the multiplier on my 2500+ from 11 to 12.5 and lo and behold i now have a 2800+ for free 🙂
 
Get a 2500+ 🙂 ... its cheaper by 50% .. and will an extra 33FSB overclock from 333 to 366 you will have a 2800+
for free and with not allot of stress on your system ... just make sure u have DDR400 PC3200 ram or better

heck the money u save lets u buy that ram for free!
 
Originally posted by: ethebubbeth
get the 2500+. AMD is getting the max yields that they prolly ever will with the athlon xp, and the majority of 2500+ are really 3200+ in disguise... I myself just changed the multiplier on my 2500+ from 11 to 12.5 and lo and behold i now have a 2800+ for free 🙂
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Me too. Great performer.
 
the 2500 and 2800 both overclock the same...so i'd go with the cheaper one. i made the mistake of thinking if i got the 2800 i could overclock it further than the 2500....no go. save the money and get a nforce2 ultra 400 mobo and some really good pc3500 ram so you can push the fsb real high..(thats if you overclock) 🙂
 
I prefer taking a 2500+ and "making" it a 3200+ or higher instead of "making" it a 2800+ ...

😀

(on stock voltage, nonetheless)
 
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