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barton 2500 or 2600 tell me fast please
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have you looked at the mobile bartons ? if yuo want to oc they are clocking to like 2.5 to 2.7Ghz
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2500 mobile 
dont mess aroung with a barton 2500, I have one, and I had it 3 months b4 I went mobile.
btw, You Got PM (YGPM)
dont mess aroung with a barton 2500, I have one, and I had it 3 months b4 I went mobile. btw, You Got PM (YGPM)
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dumbfish said:
Welcome To the Forum!
1. Any place you buy/order from will tell you if your getting a XP (regular) or XP-M (mobile).
2. Yes, the mobiles are all currently socket A.
3. Indeed, if your board will hold a 2600+ XP then it will hold a 2600+ XP-M.
Edit - Go here for all the info you could want on Mobiles
Ask all the questions you need to, most of the mobile gurus are pretty nice guys and are very helpful!
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the mobile's are 266 with a lower Vcore , but you can clock it to a 333 or even a 400 speed with no problems
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Yeah, I've seen people hitting 240-250 (480-500) FSB with the mobile Athlons on DFI boards, just incredible. Oh yeah, and they overclock way better then the desktop. Go with the mobile 2500. You simply cannot lose.
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No, we're not telling you that. At least I'm not. To obtain 400 FSB or higher depends more on your memory and motherboard more then you CPU. I don't think you will be able to tap much potential out of the mobile 2500 with that Biobarf motherboard. Sorry, no offense but that motherboard simply is not an overclockers motherboard.dumbfish said:
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dumbfish said:
What’s being said is, with the right motherboard, people are pushing these cards to 400FSB and beyond with very high degrees of O\C and cooling.
It’s not like people are sticking Mobile 2500+ chips in there systems and at random they hit great speeds magical, but with a little work (O\C and cooling) and the right components (motherboard, RAM, fan(s), PSU, etc) it’s indeed possible to reach the promise land. With your current board it’d probably be a very hard and tedious process to reach even the minimum levels of O\C some people are reaching, you might really want to think about upgrading that as well if you really want to go with a Mobile chip.
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ok im home now so im going to buy the chip within like 15 mins.the board is m7ncd biostar.i wanna get the best chip for under $100 for it.
what is the answer than? maybe next time i will get a mobile chip and abit or asus board.but this chip is for this board until i sell them off.
what is the answer than? maybe next time i will get a mobile chip and abit or asus board.but this chip is for this board until i sell them off.
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This one:dumbfish said:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-401&depa=0
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Hold on.... You might want to look at the mobile 2400 for $20 less. But From what I heard, those don't overclock as well, but others also say it overclocks about the same. But personally, I would go with the mobile 2500.
dumbfish said:
I started with the Biostar MB and returned it for the ABit NF7-S. I was overclocking and had the following issues with the Biostar:-
1. I had to unlock the higher multipliers with a wire trick
(So much for this being marketed as an overclockers board)
Pretty easy really - no big deal.
2. The BIOS is very troublesome.
If I went straight from 13.5x@133FSB to 15x@166FSB the machine would not reboot (with higher volts on CPU)
If I did this as a two stage process:
13.5x@133FSB -> 13.5x@166FSB (reboot) ->15x@166FSB
Then this would consistently work. A big pain when one is trying to optimise the voltage level.
Unfortunately, I discovered that a cold power cycle meant that it would not boot at all and I had to clear cmos and go through the two step procedure again.
At which point, I bit the 15% restock fee from NewEgg and got the Abit, which works great.
The Biostar would have worked at 2200MHZ if you were willing to do the wire trick. Going higher than this was the problem for me........ the Biostar does have a price advantage. You may want to check out the Shuttle board.
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