need helping buying combination of cpu and ram

[mocash]

Hi, i'm thinking of building a computer and needed some advice. I was planning on buying amd xp 2400+ thoroughbred and ddr333 ram. then i found out that this cpu only runs at 133 fsb, which is a slower fsb than the ddr333 ram. The 2500+ Barton has a 166 fsb which would match up with the fsb of ddr333 ram. I was wondering what i should do? Should i go with the thoroughbred and just buy ddr266 ram so the fsb's are the same? Or is the price jump to Barton and ddr333 ram a better choice? Also, the 2500+ Barton's clock speed is slower than the thoroughbred 2400+.....does that make a difference in performance? Soooooo many questions!! Thanks in advance

 

[DannyBoy]

Welcome to the forums

Depends what you need to do.

If you have the cash by all means get yourself the barton and DDR333 or even some nice 400 and oc the pair

The clock speeds are lower for a few reasons.

Mainly its a different core, but with the bartons the L2 cache is doubled so it makes up the performance loss of the lower clock speed

Dan

 

[zShowtimez]

Its not actually a different core, just larger L2 cache, and a higher FSB. And the lower clock speed dosnt matter, as the other improvements outweigh clock speed. I would go for the Barton.