2800 Barton or T-bred

[busheadfox]

I want to upgrade to a 2800 Amd chip and a nforce2 ,maybe a Asus a7n8x board. I will probably put 2 512 meg chips on it using CL2 memory running 333 or either 400 speed memory. Would the Barton chip be a better way to go or stay with the T-bred chip at 2.25 ghz. I think the Barton runs at a little slower processor speed but it has 512 L2 memory on it. What is your thinking on this setup, or would there be a better way to do it.

[Bigal]

I would compare the two prices, and look at several suppliers. It's tough to pay $400 for a CPU that drops $100 in price one month down the road. The Thoroughbred 'B' CPUs are known to be good overclockers, if you are in to doing that. I just bought an XP2100 tbred 'B' CPU for under $100, and this CPU should be able to get past 2 GHz easily (with good cooling and memory). I also have an Epox EP-8RDA+ nForce2 motherboard. I'm waiting on the two sticks of 256 MB DDR PC3200 CL2 1T memory to arrive this week, and then I'll see what I can accomplish (safely).