Looking to upgrade my Barton 2500 333bus chip

[SilverTrine]

At a cursory glance it appears that the best chip available for a motherboard with a 333mhz bus is the Barton 3000 chip. Just wanted to make sure theres not some better chip that will slot in a 333mhz board.
I want to lengthen the life of my system and want to be sure to get the best chip available.

 

[Dman877]

What do you use your comp for? Not much point doing that upgrade as the dif won't be noticeable. You'd be beter off grabbing a mobile barton and ocing to 2.4 but that depends on your mobo...

 

[TRUMPHENT]

Consider a new mainboard and possibly ram. You already have a Barton 2500 +.. I have one and chose to upgrade the mainboard and RAM. It went straight to 200mhz(3200+). I got Dual Channel RAM benefit.

Newegg is selling the Barton 3200+ for $142.00. That means your existing XP2500 is worth that much if it runs on a 200mhz FSB.

Do you know the stepping code for your processor? Mine was AQXEA 0331.

Unless your existing mainboard has some compelling feature you wish or must retain, I would have look at replacing it. That, or bide some more time and replace all with new AMD Venice core processor etc.

 

[imported_fatal]

Save your $ and upgrade to a 64 chip & MB, not worth the small improvement to go from 2500+ to 3000+

 

[SilverTrine]

Well the Barton 2500 is one of the early unlocked ones so it'll fetch good money so it'll only be like $35 to get the 3000 which seems reasonable. I'm not a big fan of overclocking so its worth it just to upgrade.
Is the barton 3000 the highest speed 333mhz bus chip?

 

[Quentin]

The 333MHz version of the XP3200+ is the fastest stock speed CPU for Socket A you're likely to find. AMD did make a small amount of 333MHz XP3200+s but they are very rare.

Since you have an unlocked XP2500+ you may want to reconsider overclocking. If your board supports multiplier changes there's a chance you could clock your CPU to the above speeds.

333MHz XP2500+: 11.0x166 = 1.83GHz
333MHz XP3000+: 13.0x166 = 2.17GHz
333MHz XP3200+: 13.5x166 = 2.25GHz

If your board doesn't allow multiplier changes, you'd have to do a pin-mod/wire trick to force the 13 or 13.5 multiplier. (http://ocinside.de/index_d.html) (hope your German is good!)

I ran my unlocked XP2500+ at XP2800+ speed (12.5x166) for over a year with no problems attributable to the OC then upgraded to PC3200 RAM to move up to 400MHz XP3200+ speed and beyond.

 

[3chordcharlie]

If it's unlocked, just overclock it.. the stock hsf will likely be fine, you won't have to run your fsb or anything else out of spec, either.

If it will run a 12x-13x multiplier, probably at stock voltage, then you are in the 2800+-3000+ range, and you haven't spent a penny. In all honesty, you aren't going to get that much more out of a socket-A platform, unless you're willing to buy a new motherboard, new ram, and a mobile athlon, and realistically, it isn't worth the money for old technology.

 

[11427]

So,.. what MB do you have? Upgrading from an unlocked 2500+ to a 3000+ is not worth it! Just get in the bios and change the fsb from 166 to 200,... and you have a 3200+

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: 11427
So,.. what MB do you have? Upgrading from an unlocked 2500+ to a 3000+ is not worth it! Just get in the bios and change the fsb from 166 to 200,... and you have a 3200+

 

[sangyup81]

socketA is dead so that's why noone here wants you to spend money on it