Why would you recommend a barton?

Zarick

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After looking over the benchmarks and seeing where a barton 2500 runs vs a 2400 I am not sure I understand why it would warrant spending the extra cash for lower clock speed and no real performance gains. Can someone fill me in a bit.
 

chizow

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It depends what applications you'll be using the majority of the time. If you're using run-of-the-mill office apps and some games where redundant and predictable cache accesses benefit from the extra L2, the Barton would be the way to go. For multimedia and non-predictable ops, the extra clockspeed would be preferable. Personally, the 167MHz clockspeed difference and ~$40 price delta would make the 2400+ appealing, not factoring O:clock:'ability of course. ;)

Chiz