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ps2cho

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Oct 13, 2004
Hey guys,

For christmas i have been thinking of doing a small upgrade to a mobile 2600+ and clock it as high as it'll go.

I want to do this because i have tested my RAM on my Duron900 (unlocked) and its been as high as 215 and its PC2700 !

I will be getting probably at least a 300MHz increase than what i currently am at and the extra L2 cache.

Think its worth it ? I dont have enough money to upgrade to s939 yet until i get a job, so this is a tempory upgrade. My graphics card runs everything i got fine, i think my CPU is lagging behind right now...

Thanks, ps2cho
 
If I were you I'd sell the mobo+CPU and get a s754 Sempron combo, a 2800+ Sempron is around $70 and a good mobo can be had for around the same price or even less (a Gigabyte K8U). This would reduce the upgrade cost to practically nothing and will give you a nice boost in performance over what you have right now.
 
I don't know much about semprons, but I have a nf7s 2.0 and xp 2500 mobile. Runs very stable at 10x 233 on air. NF7s is a very good motherboard. You might consider getting the 2400 mobile if its any cheaper
 
I dont really want to have to change my heatsink, motherboard and cpu because thats going to be like $200 ish...If i just get the mobile 2600+, it'd be a lot cheaper and less hassle. My plan is to keep this until i save about $800 and upgrade to PCI-E, socket 939 and 2GB Ram. probably in about a year's time.
 
While you may be getting a 300-ish MHz jump if you get a hard to get and now expensive mobile Barton, new AMD64 enabled Semprons overclock 'like mad' with retail heatsinks. Higher than mobile Bartons on average and perform (way) better than them at same frequencies due to their superior architecture.


Please post the place and price of the best deal for mobile Barton, then compare that to the price of Sempron+mobo, factoring in the $ you're likely to make by selling the Abit nForce2 for which there is a good market now, because people don't know that AMD64 enabled Semprons are a better deal.
 
An extra 300MHz won't feel like much of an improvement on socket A platform.
As I said you can easily sell your setup for around $100 bucks, a new sempron is around $70, a new mobo is around $50-70, depending on what you chose. A good HSF is say $40
That makes it $70 + $70 + $40 - $100 = $80, that's less than a new XP-M for a way better rig than an XP-M.
Right now it is just not worth it to invest ANY money into dead technology.
 
c627627 said:
While you may be getting a 300-ish MHz jump if you get a hard to get and now expensive mobile Barton, new AMD64 enabled Semprons overclock 'like mad' with retail heatsinks. Higher than mobile Bartons on average and perform (way) better than them at same frequencies due to their superior architecture.


Please post the place and price of the best deal for mobile Barton, then compare that to the price of Sempron+mobo, factoring in the $ you're likely to make by selling the Abit nForce2 for which there is a good market now, because people don't know that AMD64 enabled Semprons are a better deal.

Didn't realize semprons were that much better...
 
New, highly overclockable, AMD64 enabled Socket 754 Semprons, not Socket A Semprons and not old Socket 754 Semprons.
 
Are these semprons unlocked? I really no nothing on how the A64 works with multipliers.

I want to get my RAM up really high.
 
c627627 said:
New, highly overclockable, AMD64 enabled Socket 754 Semprons, not Socket A Semprons and not old Socket 754 Semprons.

Ok, is there any performance comparison between these and the athlon 64s? Maybe even the Athlon socket A's?
 
You're probably looking at running a Socket A CPU (even overclocked) at lower MHz frequency than any overclocked Socket 754/939 CPU and so even if they were running at same frequency, Socket A would perform worse running many tasks, search the internet for test comparison, but it is a fact that Socket 754/939 have superior architecture that allows for increased performance at same MHz frequency.

Plus you're looking at overclocking a 754/939 CPU to a higher MHz frequency than Socket A Barton anyway on top of that.


So it's a no brainer that Socket A is worse plus it's not cheaper because usually you can sell Socket A to upgrade up.


BUT


Sempron vs. Athlon 64 is about (lack of) money. Of course the system will run 'smoother' with a 64 but if you work for "minimum wage" etc. and $ makes a big difference to you, and there are A LOT of people with little money to spend,

THEN

new AMD64 Sempron is an excellent deal and with luck will overclock to perform just great when you look at how much less $ you need to spend on it, if you're hurting financially.
 
Looks like i can get a Mobo + The CPU for $125 /w shipping from newegg. Thats really good. Thats only like $35 more than buying a Mobile 2600+.

I think i got my christmas present set if santa thinks i have been nice :)

PS: Does Santa use newegg for christmas presents?
 
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