You're going with a $256 3000+ instead of the $83 2500+, breadtrk?
You are choosing to forgo having 7 dollars left over after buying three(!) 2500+ for the price of one 3000+ Barton.
It is the other parts of the system that people don't spend enough $ on, post the choices you made on those...
As for the 3000+, while spending all that extra $ may or may not get you extra 50 MHz, while understanding that some poeple wish to spend $ to ahieve artificial benchmark scores, consider the following which explains why it wouldn't matter much even if those data bases were accurate:
c627627 said:
Overclockers exploit the manufacturing process knowing the goal of the manufacturer was to have all CPUs being capable of running as fast as the line's fastest processor plus additional headroom. Only those CPUs that pass rigorous tests at default voltages, are given labels toward the end of the line. Others are labeled not just according to tests, but according to marketing plans.
So as you can see:
http://www.pbase.com/image/17079307/original
Thoroughbred B's scale to 2800+.
We noticed that the greatest overclockers were 1700+ and 2100+ T-Bred B's capable of reaching those end of the line speeds of 2800+ "plus additional headroom."
That's why it's best to buy those CPUs and not higher labeled CPUs since $ is another factor in overclocking.
...and that's why 1700+ T-Bred B should scale not too far below any 2x00+ T-Bred B using the same equipment.