Should I get a Barton?

[rogue1979]

If you're running sdram it might not be a big boost to get more cpu speed now. If money is an issue than you can pick up a brand new 745 Ultra for $35 shipped on pricewatch, and pick up a generic cheapo 512MB stick of PC3200 for $58. $93 for an easy 333MHz and your existing 1600MHz cpu will probably give you more performance than spending close to that much on a 2500+ and overclocking it on an sdram motherboard.

If you have a few more bucks to spend, then get an Nforce2 board for about $20 more, but then memory quality will be an issue and you will have to spend more money to run 200MHz fsb speeds.

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: slaves123
my mother do only support SDRAM I bought it when my processor was really new, and the DDR was only a distant comment. In some way i know there is some more room for overclocking these processor, but i don't figure why the tbred B are better oc'er than the Tbred A when the only phisically difference is that the B's have an extra copper layer in the core that reduce some interference, harmfull most of it, and have nothing to do with OC'ing

Well, it has some mask changes, which evidently ironed out whatever issues they had with the tbred A that kept it from scaling in clockspeed. Hence, it did have something to do with overclocking. Interference isn't usually a good thing as it becomes a bigger issue as you increase clock and power consumption. Also, tbred A was their first .13 micron part, and understandably they had a few bugs to work out.

 

[slaves123]

aka1nas thank you that is usefull i've ignored it