barton 2500 or 2600 tbred???

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KevStein
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barton 2500 or 2600 tbred???

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they are about the same price. which is the better buy???
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barton by a long shot.

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I'd say the Barton. The extra 512k cache has been known to give a marginal increase in speed for F@H and other CPU intensive things.

However the tbred's have been known to OC further. BUT, some Barton's are gettin pretty high up there. I don't really know, I just know my 2100+ oc's nicely. :D
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I'd say Barton.
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i would agree the 512 cache does increase speed well
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