What Athlon processor do you recommend?

[GoingUp]

After havin probs with a 1700+ that I bought, I am givin up on it, hoping for a refund and I want to go with a 2500+ or so.

What do you recommend? The 333fsb one or the t bred.

I am looking at most likely getting the Epox 8rda+ or the Asus A7N8X-X board.

I do a lot of photoshop, flash, and premiere work. I also do some gaming as well. What would be my best bet? I will also be using pc2700 memory. I doubt I would overclock very much, but I am open to suggestions.

I dont know if I should get the 2500+ barton, or the 2400+ tbred. One is faster than the other, but the barton has more cache.

Should I just say screw it and get the 2600+ barton?

 

[Heinrich]

Barton 2500+ and an NF7-S 2.0. You'll need PC3200 though most probably for 3200XP speeds. The Gigabyte nForce2 board looks good and so does the DFI Lanparty nForce2 board. Skip the Epox boards - the one you mentioned is Nforce2 non-Ultra nd the nForce2 Ultra that they made has some cheap components skipping Nvidia's MCP-T chip.

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: Heinrich
Barton 2500+ and an NF7-S 2.0. You'll need PC3200 though most probably for 3200XP speeds. The Gigabyte nForce2 board looks good and so does the DFI Lanparty nForce2 board. Skip the Epox boards - the one you mentioned is Nforce2 non-Ultra nd the nForce2 Ultra that they made has some cheap components skipping Nvidia's MCP-T chip.

Problem is I have only $200 for the mobo processor combo....

I have pc 2700 memory already bought

 

[beatle]

You'll be fine with PC2700. You won't get high bus speeds, but that won't stop you from upping the multiplier on that barton! Get the NF7-S and a 2500+.

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: beatle
You'll be fine with PC2700. You won't get high bus speeds, but that won't stop you from upping the multiplier on that barton! Get the NF7-S and a 2500+.

Yep, all nForce 2 boards unlock the multiplier.. Go for the 2500+ you will get to @ least 3000+ speeds...

 

[Corporate Thug]

another vote for 2500+ and NF7-s

 

[DefRef]

Originally posted by: bjc112

Originally posted by: beatle
You'll be fine with PC2700. You won't get high bus speeds, but that won't stop you from upping the multiplier on that barton! Get the NF7-S and a 2500+.

Yep, all nForce 2 boards unlock the multiplier.. Go for the 2500+ you will get to @ least 3000+ speeds...

Really? You don't need to cut bridges or do "wire tricks"?

I'm breaking in a new rig (see sig) and I've got it running at ~182 MHz FSB on the standard 11X multiplier, but are you saying I can hit 2GHz (and beyond) by switching to 200x10, thus increasing memory bus speed?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

 

[Ecliptic]

another vote for nf7-s.

 

[DefRef]

Nevermind. I figured it out for myself. Currently running @ 2205 MHz and also set multi to 10X earlier.

 

[AkumaX]

bizzzarton 2500+