I'm talking 2100+ TBredB chips. You can get them for under $100, and they perform just as well as 2400+ chips. Did you miss that news? The 2100+ chips are the hottest thing AMD has going right now in the enthusiast market (naturally, though, this is open for debate by the 1700+ JUIHB crowd!).
As far as sheer performance goes, though, on the Barton 3000+, how many people are going to spend $600+ on them and run them stock? I mean c'mon now ... there are sites reporting that they can be clocked at stock voltage on the retail (read: sh!t) heatsink to over 2400 Mhz. One of these watercooled to around 2600 Mhz would be a killer chip all around. The problem is that for an extra 6-7% over a regular TBredB that can clock the same, wouldn't you be better off buying other peripheral gear that can make the same amount of difference? That price difference would buy you a 9700 Pro, another gig of PC3500 RAM, and a 8RDA+. I'd rather do that than just bump my CPU a bit, and I'd get better gains in speed.
__________________
#!/bin/sh {who;} {last;} {pause;} {grep;} {touch;} {unzip;} mount /dev/girl -t {wet;} {fsck;} {fsck;} {fsck;} {fsck;} echo yes yes yes {yes;} umount {/dev/girl;zip;} rm -rf {wet.spot;} {sleep;} finger: permission denied
|