shoot! failed to OC but oh well (now we know the value of barton)

I traded my XP 2500 in for an XP 2400 (it was 10 bucks less), turns out the XP 2500 was much better, it OC about 150mhz on my crappy ECS mobo while the 2400 was unstable at 2.1ghz. oh well they perform pretty much the same any ways, i used that 10 bucks and swap my 45 dollars 256MB PC 3200 patriot ram for 512MB of PC 2700 spectec RAM which cost me 50 bucks. oh well i think i saved a little with the XP 2400 system, if i get a different mobo then i might be able to do some work on it. too bad i'm out of cash. btw does XP 2400 runs a little hotter than the 2500? at the same speed it seems that the 2400 are running 3-4 degrees C higher, or do I have to wait for the thermal compound to settle in?
BTW check this out, my 2500 was doing 2ghz, with 256MB of RAM running at ratio (my stupid mobo would only run the RAM at 133, 166 or the Ram speed, it can't do ratio) and the ram was doing 2.5-3-3-6
and right now i'm runing 2400 at 2ghz, with 512MB of RAM 1:1 ratio at 2-2-2-6
which system is better?

Well, if the 2400 is a tbred, then the barton has more surface area to contact the heatsink.

oh really? i didn't know that, i always thought that they all have the same surface area, oh, so that make sense, i'm idle at 39C right now but the thermal compound hasn't kicked in yet, last time i built a computer, it took the thermal compound about 3 days to kicked in a droped my temp 4C so i'm hoping that it does that too, 39C idle is a little too high.