Decided On Amd

[Super Dude]

Originally posted by clocker@6 July 2004 - 14:38
What is the attraction of "mobile" chips?
Is it just that the multipiers are still unlocked or are there other advantages also?

The Mobile CPU Mini-FAQs

An interesting review by AnandTech

[Sasage]

So what does OC the Barton 2500 entail exactly?

[tesco]

Originally posted by Sasage@6 July 2004 - 12:24
So what does OC the Barton 2500 entail exactly?

Makes it faster. Higher speeds, better benchmarks, bragging right...although you will see little real-world improvement.

[Sasage]

Sorry...I should have re-read what I typed. Is there any sodering or anything like that involved?

[tesco]

Originally posted by Sasage@6 July 2004 - 13:22
Sorry...I should have re-read what I typed. Is there any sodering or anything like that involved?

In OCing? hell no.

Just go into your bios (press del or something liek that at sartrup) and you change the speeds. Takes a little tinkering to get it stable at higher speeds that 3200+, but should still be pretty easy.

[Snee]

I've been looking into getting a mobile too, like it says they run colder and so forth.


There a tiny lil problem with a lot of mobos apparently tho', in that the mobiles aren't properly identified on the mobo, on certain chipsets the pinmod seems pretty much mandatory to get them to run.


If I was getting a new mobo, I'd prolly go with one of the 64 bit amd's, as the 3200xp+ appears to be the last xp processor, leaving less room to upgrade later.

[Sasage]

I guess I will stick with the AMD Athlon XP 2500+ so I choose to upgrade or OC down the road I will be able to do so. Now I just have find a mobo to go with it.

[tesco]

Originally posted by Sasage@6 July 2004 - 16:34
I guess I will stick with the AMD Athlon XP 2500+ so I choose to upgrade or OC down the road I will be able to do so. Now I just have find a mobo to go with it.

The best motherboard foir athlon xp prcoessors are:

ABIT NF7 series
ASUS A7N8X Series
and Gigabyte 7N400L series of boards.

make sure, when u choose a board (if it isn't one of the ones i listed) then it has the nforce 2 chipset.

[kaiweiler]

Originally posted by Sasage@6 July 2004 - 17:34
I guess I will stick with the AMD Athlon XP 2500+ so I choose to upgrade or OC down the road I will be able to do so. Now I just have find a mobo to go with it.

Since you say your overclocking, I recommend the Abit NF7-S, it is the overclockers dream B)

[Sasage]

ABIT "NF7-S" nForce2 Chipset Motherboard and ASUS "A7N8X" nForce2 Ultra 400 have gotten good reviews from what I can see.