Originally posted by: GreatDaleness
Originally posted by: Regs
Originally posted by: DWW
Why the fsck are people saying Barton 2500+ when you have something only 100 MHz slower. Won't make that much difference people!
Your CPU is pretty good. Depends on what you want to do with your rig.
Your forgetting one important difference, the 2100 only sports a 266 MHz front side bus, and yes 66 MHz difference makes a lot a difference on a AMD set up. The 2500 has more bandwidth to play with to transfer data thru the bus, unlike the 2100. For 80 dollars, I don't see why not.
not to mention twice the cache and a future ability to OC to 200FSB making it a 3200+
The extra cache doesn't really help
that much and is negligible. Ability to OC: Can't he OC the one he has?
Honestly, if all this user does is microsoft word, internet explorer, e-mail, and a few 3D demanding games, he's fine. He's got a 9500 Pro which is very comparable to a 9600 Pro XT in terms of performance. Not to mention 1GB of ram. IMHO, you are just fine right now
soric2 and don't need to upgrade just yet. If I was in your situation, I would just wait it out for some time because just like it has always been, the longer you wait the better the product you can usually get, that is to an extent though, I mean, don't go waiting like 4 years or something, hehe
