What is the mobile athlon OC'd to 2500mhz comparable to?

I'm interested in selling my current setup and purchasing a new AMD mobile proc. Aparently most people are able to do 2500mhz or more. This would be done with watercooling.

What is this comparable to? Like a 3600+? I'm just curious if I should upgrade. Currently have an old [email protected] that I've had for over 2 years now.

Well if it's run at dual 200 FSB, there are two official ratings on that,
3000+ at 2.1 GHz and
3200+ at 2.2 GHz

does that mean that hypothetical XPs at dual 200 FSB would be
3400+ at 2.3 GHz
3600+ at 2.4 GHz
3800+ at 2.5 GHz

It may not be 3800+ but it will be a an improvement over Intel 2.7.

You say you have water cooling? You may just hit over 2.5 AMD GHZ with lots of luck... 4000+ ? Maybe not, good luck either way.

I easily got 2.5 (12.5x200 actually) Ghz out of my Mobile 2500+ with very basic aircooling (Volcano 7+ on medium). Runs stable on evertything. Once I get my watercooling setup back together I think I should easily get 2.7 Ghz with some conservative memory timings. This would give it a PR rating of around 4000+ but would really equal the performance of like a 3.6 or 3.7 Ghz P4 (close)

Sweet! I've been out of the loop of AMDs for a while now, since my trusty 1.8A has been great to me. So I'll probably end up getting a mobile in a month or so.

I'm wondering how the memory situation is handled on the AMD side. I know with the new intel motherboards they have ratios to lower the memory clock for slower memory. I have 3 Dimms of 3200 corsair xms that I had bought a long time ago. I don't know if it would be able to handle a full 200mhz(A single dimm would), so what do you do about that? Or is the 200mhz fsb only a rating for the proc?

All these different ratings for memory speed, quad pumped, etc get really confusing after a while. I remember trying to explain to my dad which memory he needed to get, and he was pretty confused.

Running the memory async is not a good idea, as you loose a lot of performance due to latencies. With enough voltage, and maybe a bit relaxed timings your RAM should do 200MHz FSB.
Hey just look at my sig, my RAM would do 209MHz @ 3v, and its PC2100

2.5GHz Barton roughly equates (in reality) to a 2.6GHz T-Bred 3.4GHz Pentium 4, or 2.2GHz Athlon64.

ahh ok... hrmm.. trying to decide if the speed increase is worth it then. I guess I'll just wait till 4ghz+ is easily accessible. I know the p4's are pretty much doing 3.7ghz pretty easily, but I was just looking for something fairly inexpensive(amd) and sell my current setup.

I'm sure its quite a bit faster, but I don't stress the cpu enough And most games I play are on Xbox(The future of gaming).

The hard truth is, a heavily overclocked AXP can be rather easily trounced on by a moderately overclock P4. But both can be beaten by an Athlon 64 at stock. IMHO, this would be your best choice. A proper configuration of an A64 system would only be about $100 more than a mobile Barton setup.

X-Box the future of gaming?????