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Barton reviews
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 7:38 am
by wvjohn
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 1:02 pm
by nexus_7
seems to be a pretty impresive chip. Not perfect, but nice.
Greg
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 5:53 am
by sbp
The barton is okay.
For some people, the performance of the barton is lesser than expected.
about the model rating: This rating was due more to marketing decisions.
btw
AMD is doing an Intel for Barton pricing. They have to make money somehow.
the oc on these chips
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 6:32 am
by wvjohn
may end up being limited by the extra cache - they will require more power, and ll those transistors will have to talk to each other - sort of like the early duron/tbird - I remember when you could punch the durons over 1 gig much more easily than the tbirds - the added cache may make them faster at certain apps though
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 10:49 pm
by chak22
I think I will wait for the prices to drop ..........ALOT!!!! my 2100XP out does the Barton for a heck of alot LESS money and since I got my 8rda board I can play alot more ,now if I can get WIN98 to work right ,I'll be happy
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 1:26 am
by PreDatoR
get out of the 90's and get WinXP Pro
98 is a has been driver support is decreasing for it and next year support will be dropped. It was always a buggy OS anyways but not half as bad and ME was.
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 10:17 am
by busheadfox
I am getting ready to upgrade to the 2800 chip. I will probably be using a nforce2 board, maybe the Asus a7n8x board. My question is should I get the t-bred chip or the barton chip. I think the t-bred is 2.25ghz and the barton I think is a little slower processor speed.
What are your suggestions . I currently have a msi 333 with a 1900 now. The expert computer kid here needs more speed and power for her video processings and movie making.
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 10:30 am
by chak22
Well I switched to WinXP on this new rig and after some hardware/software issues I think I've Finally have her straightened out (hopefully) and I've got the 2100XP@2290mhz with F@H running 24/7 temp is at 106 degF , when I get my Vantec Iceburg kit installed on NB/SB I will attempt to push it higher (had it over 2300 mhz for a bit but backed off )