Worth upgrading Xp2100 T-bred OC'd at 11x200?

[Aiden]

About a year ago,i upgraded my system with an epox 8rda+ R1.1 motherboard and the T-bred which was week 301 AIUHB stepping i believe.

At any rate,im curious if upgrading to a barton CPU will do anything significant performance wise? The only reason i would upgrade is if i could get a decent preformance boost with the 2500 to 3200 bartons and my existing MB/system.
Im just looking to extend the life of my current setup for another 18 months,without having to invest alot of cash.


Specs are:

Epox 8rda+ MB
AMD XP2100+ T-bred AIUHB Air Cooled
2x512 Corsair xms pc3200
Radeon 9800 <not overclocked>

11x200 FSB @ winter
11x185 FSB @ summer

 

[taycoyote]

I would say you probably won't notice a huge difference, but it is less than $100 for a 2500+ Barton, so it might be a good investment. The thing you have going for you is your memory and video card which won't have to be upgraded for a long time if you didn't have to.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Originally posted by: Aiden
About a year ago,i upgraded my system with an epox 8rda+ R1.1 motherboard and the T-bred which was week 301 AIUHB stepping i believe.

At any rate,im curious if upgrading to a barton CPU will do anything significant performance wise? The only reason i would upgrade is if i could get a decent preformance boost with the 2500 to 3200 bartons and my existing MB/system.
Im just looking to extend the life of my current setup for another 18 months,without having to invest alot of cash.


Specs are:

Epox 8rda+ MB
AMD XP2100+ T-bred AIUHB Air Cooled
2x512 Corsair xms pc3200
Radeon 9800 <not overclocked>

11x200 FSB @ winter
11x185 FSB @ summer

I'm curious to what's giving you trouble at 11x200. I already have a Athlon 2600, and a new mobo on the way that should get me to 11x200, 11.5 maybe if I push it. I already know I need to upgrade because of crap performance in UT2K4 with this chip at 16x133. But I also have a mobile 2600 on the way I'm having second thoughts about. If you could give me an idea about what's not running to your satisfaction at 11x200 I'd really appreciate it, it might help me with my decision.

 

[myocardia]

Since you obviously have an unlocked chip, and really good memory, why don't you try 10.5x or even 10x multi, and as high of an fsb as you can get? You'd get quite a bit of extra performance out of that chip, without spending any money at all. Plus, I would recommend you spend some money on a better heatsink, so you can run it at at least 11x200 all year long. Good heatsinks aren't that expensive.

 

[Aiden]

The problem isnt my heatsink. The problem is i live in arizona and to keep my CPU cool enough during the summer requires me to run around 69-70 F on my air conditioner. thats about a 75$ monthly surcharge on electric bill.
Summer power costs are absurd in phoenix.

Im runnin on air,with a slk-800 and 5 fans in an amg1080. I never did the volt mod on the MB and i dont think i want to,im not that good at tinkering with computers.

Im 100% satisfied with the CPU,its more that im just looking at an upgrade,if the upgrade is

1. Cost effective
2. a decent preformance increase

 

[Mustanggt]

I am in the same boat as you, I have a Tbred 1700@2.3 the average overclock of the barton is between 2.3 and 2.5 this includes the mobile, so we are talking 5% give or take in performace gain, I can tell you you will never notice that small of a gain in real world, In my opinion you would be wasting $100 on nothing, I am tired of waiting for AMD to get it together, with no where to go I bought the raptor 74 gig this will give any system a nice Kick

 

[kyparrish]

i'm kind of in the same situation myself...

my xp2100 can run 11x200 even w/ my crappy crucial pc-2700 ram. i don't think that moving to a barton would be worth it though, as the increase in performance wouldn't justify and upgrade that would cost upwards of $80...especially when in a few months you know we're all going to want to be upgrading to the latest and greatest A64 setup

 

[ponyo]

It will be waste of money and you won't notice any difference IMO.

 

[edmundoab]

dont think its worth upgrading to a barton unless you are aiming at A64

 

[gistech1978]

i cannot get my 2100+ to run at 11x200
10.5 seems to be my max.
i was wondering this same question myself.

 

[Mustanggt]

Originally posted by: edmundoab
dont think its worth upgrading to a barton unless you are aiming at A64

Yes A64 but for it to be worth upgrading I would have to jump to a 3400 A64 0r the 3700 coming out soon, right now the prices on these are way to high so I see my self waiting untill the end of the year. They should have the 512 A64s soon so I hope they might be a little cheaper.

 

[Falloutboy]

stick with what you got I too know the pains of Phoenix Overclocking and huge summer electric bills , thankfully now I moved to the white mtns where its is among other things F*cking Cold

Then 1 year from now when you feel you system is starting get slow ethier upgrade to A64 or grab whatever is the hot socket A chip then (most likely still a Barton chip clocking to around 2.6-2.7 reliably)

 

[Aiden]

Pretty much what i expected. Ill wait for the new CPUS and New motherboards for another year or more.

Glad you like the White Mtn's,spent plenty of time there as a kid at my parents cabin. Its a shame about the Forest's though. Guess people might wake up once 2-3 million acres burns in a year.