Barton Or T-bred

[Mr. Elmo]

okay im shopping for a new cpu, and i was wondering if i should get a 2500 barton or a 2400 t-bred....the t-bred is clock at 2.0ghz while the barton is clocked at 1.8....and the price is 10 dollars more....i dont plan on doing any overclock so im kinda leaning toward the t-bred becuz it has faster stock speed....but could the increase in caches size and fsb make the barton any faster than the 2400?

[DWk]

barton....

The barton has a bigger cache and has a better chance of "surviving" overclocking ;)

[Mr. Elmo]

yea, its good for ocing, but i dotn plan on doing any.

[bigdawgfoxx]

Barton

[clocker]

T-breds are imminently clockable.
Not that you're going to do that, of course.

Bartons have a big rep.
Not sure how well deserved it is.

[DWk]

i have a t-bred though lol....however barton has bigger cache :D

[Mr. Elmo]

yea, thats what im wondering...does the caches size and the fbs affect speed thta much? cuz if not , then im just gonna get my self a 2400 t-bred instead of the 2500 barton

[DWk]

depends on ur mobo.....can it support it? whats the price difference?

[Lamsey]

If you get the 2500+ you'll be able to use 333MHz RAM efficiently, which will be a boost. It'll also mean better upgradeability.

[Mr. Elmo]

Originally posted by DWk@27 December 2003 - 20:37
depends on ur mobo.....can it support it? whats the price difference?
my mobo support the fbs of 200/266/333 so yes. the price dif. is $10

@lamsey ty for the tip, i was planning on using pc2700 rams. so i guess ill go w/ barton....their goes the $10 for my extra uv cold cathode :(

[Lamsey]

Originally posted by Mr. Elmo+27 December 2003 - 20:51--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Mr. Elmo @ 27 December 2003 - 20:51)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-DWk@27 December 2003 - 20:37
depends on ur mobo.....can it support it? whats the price difference?
my mobo support the fbs of 200/266/333 so yes. the price dif. is &#036;10

@lamsey ty for the tip, i was planning on using pc2700 rams. so i guess ill go w/ barton....their goes the &#036;10 for my extra uv cold cathode :( [/b][/quote]
The cathode looks pretty, but is it really useful to you? You&#39;ll be better going for an efficient CPU/RAM combo :)

[DWk]

correcto..... think performance first....then all those "nice" things

[Smurfette]

Blimey, I got a Soltek mobo on which I can set the CPU & RAM independently. Aren&#39;t they all separately controlled now, then?

[clocker]

My Asus board allows that also.

[Lamsey]

Originally posted by Smurfette@27 December 2003 - 23:30
Blimey, I got a Soltek mobo on which I can set the CPU & RAM independently. Aren&#39;t they all separately controlled now, then?
Most modern mobos allow it, but it&#39;s not an efficient way to run a PC.

[clocker]

Originally posted by Lamsey@27 December 2003 - 17:38

Most modern mobos allow it, but it&#39;s not an efficient way to run a PC.
What meaneth thou?

[Lamsey]

As far as I know, it&#39;s more efficient to have your CPU FSB and your RAM running at the same speed. That way one never has to wait some cycles for the other to catch up.

[DWk]

yea..... my mobo has 333fsb.....although im running 266 kingston ram and 266 cpu (for economical issues :D )

when i buy my new cpu (since the mobo supports till 3000+), ill prolly have to get other ram :D (333 one, since the cpu i would buy would be 333)

[clocker]

Originally posted by Lamsey@27 December 2003 - 17:41
As far as I know, it&#39;s more efficient to have your CPU FSB and your RAM running at the same speed. That way one never has to wait some cycles for the other to catch up.
Ah,
so you mean that it&#39;s more efficient to run your RAM and CPU synchronous.
I agree, although I have seen threads in which radical OCers are getting pretty amazing results running asynch, but they are running settings that would make my parts beg for mercy (if not just go belly up :P ).

[DWk]

btw clocker.....WHERE are all your fans plugged in?

[clocker]

I made a custom, multi-branched harness which plugs into a dedicated 5v line from the PSU.

[DWk]

any tutorials in that kind of shit? with pics of course :D

and yes...you already know i tried google :rolleyes:

[clocker]

Not that I know of, I just made it up as I went along.

[DWk]

oh so thats electronics kicking in?

cuz i need a crash course in that :D