quick barton purchase Question

[AZN]

i wanted alittle extra kick and was wondering if the barton 2500 would give me that over my xp1700 at 200fsb @ 2.4ghz, if so where should i buy it? newegg has oem for $85 and retail for $90, are there any difference like in codes or anything? should i just buy from egg and hope for the best or is there a place known for good overclockers. thx.

my nf7-s v2 unlocks my xp1700, will it do that for bartons?

 

[cobray]

my nf7-s v2 unlocks my xp1700, will it do that for bartons?

Yes

 

[UnLoadeD]

cobray is wrong. Currently made Bartons are all locked. Read thread HERE for info about steppings. If you want an unlocked one, you'll haveta do some work finding one. If you've got decent ram, which it seems you do, because you are running at 200fsb now, you can run it at 11x200=3200+ easily. I went from 1700+ to 2500+ and ran em both at same speed (2.2) the barton seemed quite a bit quicker, I guess its because of the extra cache.

peace.
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[cobray]

cobray is wrong. Currently made Bartons are all locked. Read thread HERE for info about steppings. If you want an unlocked one, you'll haveta do some work finding one. If you've got decent ram, which it seems you do, because you are running at 200fsb now, you can run it at 11x200=3200+ easily. I went from 1700+ to 2500+ and ran em both at same speed (2.2) the barton seemed quite a bit quicker, I guess its because of the extra cache.

peace.
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I should have said "If the chip is unlockable (pre week 38 or whatever)" then yes, you can change the multiplier

 

[AZN]

well then, where can i find a week CPUs up to week 35? what weeks have newegg been shipping out lately.

 

[Rocko[DPC]]

You wont get an unlocked from newegg. There is a shop that sells unlocked, but theyre around $135 from there. Really though you might not even need an unlocked... Are you using good memory or have you tried upping your FSB to 220+? If 200 is the best you can get, you'll still get 2200. The extra cache seems to be worth about 200 mhz from the tbreds.

 

[Gautam]

If you've got a T-Bred that does 2.4gHz stable, you'd best hang tight.

 

[c627627]

I tend to listen to Gautam and would in this case as well.

Stay with 2.4 instead of going with Barton. Instead I would get a better video card, depending on what you have now, more storage space (if you need it). They all average 2.3 GHz and you hit 2.4 GHz.

It will be an improvement will double cache, but these would not be significant gains overall speaking...

You say you hit 200 FSB? With wat RAM? Can you lower the multi and up the FSB?

 

[AZN]

i got an antec 550w psu i havent tried yet but some people think that is the key to hitting 2.5ghz so we'll see. for now im on a allied 400w psu. seems for me know 2.4ghz is the max at 1.825v and 200fsb is also about max. i have ran at 218x11 for same cpu speed but its not fully stable so i would really rather find an unlocked cpu but if they are charging $135 for unlocked barton 2500s id rather go another route.

I was looking for alittle extra speed but i didnt really want to spend more then $100