Retail 2500 Bartons are $131 shipped at Newegg!

[jjmIII]

Might be time to try one of these...

Newegg

Googlegear $130

:beer:

 

[grabadude]

Would grab this one for sure but have Intel box right now. Also, price for retail is lower than OEM? Never seen that before

 

[DaFanMan]

pretty hot deal, wish I had the money right now

 

[J3anyus]

Wow, that's a sweet deal. I just picked up my 2100+ T-Bred B a month or so ago for $90. I'd much rather have a Barton

 

[peacelvhpy]

Googlegear has them for $137...

-=link=-

looks like it's a price drop all around...

-me...

 

[Zorro]

What board goes well with this?

 

[chizow]

Originally posted by: Zorro
What board goes well with this?

Any nForce2 board................

I should have mine on Thursday..ordered from Googlegear last night for $137.

Chiz

 

[IgoByte]

I paid $176 for the same processor on 4/1.

I hope AMEX still PMs.

 

[Schwan]

On other sites: Would it be worth it paying $5 extra for the retail version over oem?

Is there an advantage other than the extended warrenty and HSF?

 

[IgoByte]

Originally posted by: Schwan

Is there an advantage other than the extended warrenty and HSF?

This is a retail processor as far as I can see...and no, aside from the three-year warranty and the HSF there are no advantages.

 

[Schwan]

Are there any specific versions of this chip that overclock better that we know about?

 

[Delbert]

Originally posted by: IgoByte

Originally posted by: Schwan

Is there an advantage other than the extended warrenty and HSF?

This is a retail processor as far as I can see...and no, aside from the three-year warranty and the HSF there are no advantages.

Ironically the OEM version is $24 more

 

[Schwan]

I was talking about gameve.com. BTW

$134 shipped oem or $139 shipped retail.

 

[GRagland]

I was wondering if there is any good reasons to get this chip over the 2100+ tbred b? Almost every 2100+ tbred b can overclock to a 2700+ right? And dont the new ones come stock at 1.5v, so there is a lot of overclocking room? I'm not sure if i should go with the barton or the tbred 2100+ yet. What do you think?

 

[Staples]

This price is dropping pretty quickly (must be because Athlons are not getting any faster while the P4s are). I bought this CPU a little over a month ago for over $50 more.

Wanted to wait for the P4 C and the Canterwood but I just bought this and an Abit N7F-S instead.

 

[Bacinator]

Originally posted by: Schwan
On other sites: Would it be worth it paying $5 extra for the retail version over oem?

Is there an advantage other than the extended warrenty and HSF?

Nifty packaging instead of a plain-jane brown box?
If you don't plan on overclocking (warantee voiding), retail is a good choice. And having a spare fan for you, or for friends/family, to fall back on is always nice.

 

[chizow]

There's actually some benefits right now to getting a retail over OEM.

1) Its only a few bucks more expensive, and in Newegg's case, sometimes cheaper (by a lot for the 2500+ Barton).

2) The retail chips are currently coming back with better/later steppings than their OEM counterparts. Many 1700+s are coming back as T-bred As. In the past tray inventory has turned over much faster than retail boxed chips, so the newer steppings were found on OEM parts. That hasn't been the case as of late.

3) You get a crappy fan, which can be good as a backup or free sink on an older CPU.

4) You get an AMD case badge.

5) You get 3 years instead of 30 days warranty.

I should have my Barton Retail 2500+ Thursday if Googlegear ever decides to go from "Packed" to "Shipped." First retail AMD I've ever bought.

Chiz

 

[joecool]

'k, i'm confused: how can the oem version be MORE than the retail?!!!

this is a truly sweet deal!

 

[Naruto]

I wonder if the performance is well worth the extra $50 over the 2100+. I am gonna overclock anyways and still am leaning toward the 2100+. Its still a great deal, but i think the cache doesn't improve it that much.

 

[h0mi]

According to Tom's, the retail fans are pretty good. I suppose if you want to overclock alot it might not be as good as a volcano or something, but I wouldnt call the retail fans crappy.

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: DaFanMan
pretty hot deal, wish I had the money right now

yeb, i want a new board too. Still running on my old Epox 8k7a+

 

[yodayoda]

Originally posted by: h0mi
According to Tom's, the retail fans are pretty good. I suppose if you want to overclock alot it might not be as good as a volcano or something, but I wouldnt call the retail fans crappy.

yeah, but also according to Tom's, Tom's Hardware is a legitimate hardware review site, and we all know that is bull =)

 

[Polar2002]

Reading hardocp the barton does not give consistent oc.

 

[warzer]

newegg site has shown barton retail sold out since yesterday.

 

[chizow]

Originally posted by: h0mi
According to Tom's, the retail fans are pretty good. I suppose if you want to overclock alot it might not be as good as a volcano or something, but I wouldnt call the retail fans crappy.

LoL, ANY heatsink and fan combo would be "pretty good" for Tom's, "Home of the Rotisserie Thunderbird." (For the younger/newer members, I'm referring to the Athlon frying pan video "expose" featured at Tom's a few years back).

I guess I should've meant to say, crappy for overclocking , which would be the only reason to buy this chip over a 2400+. If you're going to run at stock speeds, the 2400+ runs 166MHz faster, which would negate any performance gains in applications with redundant branch predictions that might use the extra L2 cache. The 2400+ would certainly outperform the 2500+ in applications dependent on clock cycles and non-predictable cache accesses like multimedia work. And of course the 2400+ is ~$30 cheaper.

Chiz