How does Barton 2500+ overclocked to 3200+ perform?

[snowpeas]

I'm thinking of buying a barton 2500+ and then oc it to 3200+. How will the performace be? How does it stack up against P4 3.2gz? Or AMD 64? If any1 have links to some sort of webpage where they did testing please post. Thanks

 

[Revo]

In short, the P4 3.2GHz and the AMD Athlon64 blow the XP3200+ away. However, as the price of the XP2500+ is quite low its not a bad deal. There is one thing you should be careful of which is that AMD have started to lock the multiplier on the Barton so you may not be able to overclock your 2500+ to 3200+ speeds. Hope this helps!

 

[Megatomic]

Who needs a multiplier change to overclock a 2500+ to 3200+? It's just a matter of selecting 200MHz FSB. The multplier of the 2500+ is the same as the multiplier of the 3200+.

And the performance you get from a 2500+ @ 3200+ doesn't really stack up favorably against the P4C 3.2 or A64 3200+, but for the money you spend on the 2500+ it's bang for the buck is incredible. I'd say it's one of the best deals in the CPU world.

 

[bootoo]

Some folks run into trouble with theirs in terms of reaching 3200+ speeds on stock voltage, but many many don't and I didn't even bother playing with the multi yet on mine; glad I have an unlocked one but if it was locked I'd still be happy.

Happy with my Barton here; selling off my Tbred B's one by one.

 

[BlueWeasel]

My 2500+ can only hit 2.0ghz (11x183FSB) on stock voltage. My early revision Epox 8RDA board is holding me back, though, and I could probably hit 200 FSB with a new MB.

Still thrilled and happy running at 183 FSB, though, as it blows away my previous 2000+ (not overclocked) that was running at 133 FSB. I am sure once I get tired of 2.0ghz, I'll make the push to 3200+

 

[saxophonoia]

I have a locked one and am still very happy with it. I've got some decent memory so I've got it at 2.33 right now and it's plenty fast enough for me.

 

[myocardia]

Dapunisher did some VERY interesting tests of his 2.43ghz Barton vs. his overclocked Athlon64 3000+. Here's the link to his thread.

 

[Megatomic]

I was very fortunate with my 2500+, I got one of the earlier chips and I swear it must be a re-marked 3200+. It is stress tested stable for 48hours (all I had the patience to endure) at stock voltage with the temp. never going over 50C with near silent cooling.

I'll be sticking with my current setup (providing I don't try out a P4C system when they get really cheap) until Socket939 is firmly entrenched and prices have started drop on those parts.

 

[WA261]

My Barton runs at 2.57. This thing rocks!

 

[Duvie]

I agree there is no guarantee it will make 3200+ anyways....But if you take a 2500+ and oc it to 3200+ with fsb to 200 then it is for all intensive purposes 100% comparable to a 3200+ in performance....

However in a majority of applications the one I had was more like a 2.8c in terms of performance...In specific areas and test I run it sometimes was worse then a 2.4c or equal to it...Those ofcourse were when HT enabled apps came into play....


Price performance though cannot be overlooked and if you are a gamer I can't see anything to beat that....Good luck...The one I had would do it at default and did 2.3ghz with little vcore adjustment....Mine was locked as most all of them know unless you get one floating around the forums which may be older then week 32 where most of them switched over to 100% locked...

 

[batmanuel]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
I was very fortunate with my 2500+, I got one of the earlier chips and I swear it must be a re-marked 3200+. It is stress tested stable for 48hours (all I had the patience to endure) at stock voltage with the temp. never going over 50C with near silent cooling.

I'll be sticking with my current setup (providing I don't try out a P4C system when they get really cheap) until Socket939 is firmly entrenched and prices have started drop on those parts.

I got the same performance with my chip I got only a few months ago. It barely gets over 45C under load, and this is with a Coolermaster Aero 7 Lite with the blower running at only 2600 RMP. I'm sure I could get the temps down lower with a better cooler, but my 2500+ has been rock solid stable for me at 2.2GHz. Can't wait for a big RAM price drop so I can pick up some OCZ or Hyper X memory, up the vcore a bit and see where I top out. Best $90 I ever spent on a processor.