Hi,
By looking the old Anandtech article : "AMD's Athlon XP 3000+ Barton cuts it close", I can see that there is only 5% to 10% of performance gain. (while 10% improved performance only happenned 2 times out of 10 benchmark)
I know that Barton has a larger cache but the clock speed isnt really different, and the performance isnt really different also.
Why would you buy a Barton ? And more important question, why do they call it a 3000+ when it is only 5% faster than a 2600+ ???
And since I bought my system not so long ago (just before Athlon64) because it was a really cheap upgrade, do not tell me to change to a A64 system
By looking the old Anandtech article : "AMD's Athlon XP 3000+ Barton cuts it close", I can see that there is only 5% to 10% of performance gain. (while 10% improved performance only happenned 2 times out of 10 benchmark)
I know that Barton has a larger cache but the clock speed isnt really different, and the performance isnt really different also.
Why would you buy a Barton ? And more important question, why do they call it a 3000+ when it is only 5% faster than a 2600+ ???
And since I bought my system not so long ago (just before Athlon64) because it was a really cheap upgrade, do not tell me to change to a A64 system