I've been reading the archives and benchmarks on the new bartons and it seems the xp2400 or even the xp2100 are better bang for the buck since the cache doesn't give as much performance boost as higher clock....but here's my question
Is the barton 2500+ a better buy if I overclock it. I can't find much info or people who've done this yet, but it seems with the bigger cache and higher FSB the barton 2500+ can reach 2.1 or 2.2 ghz.
So if I plan to overclock and game should I spring for the $180 barton 3500+ or do the $100 2100+ or even $140 for 2400+
I don't have any parts and will be building from scratch so I can get a good nforce2 board. I'll be gaming mostly with some mp3 encoding but not much.
what would you do?
thanks
Is the barton 2500+ a better buy if I overclock it. I can't find much info or people who've done this yet, but it seems with the bigger cache and higher FSB the barton 2500+ can reach 2.1 or 2.2 ghz.
So if I plan to overclock and game should I spring for the $180 barton 3500+ or do the $100 2100+ or even $140 for 2400+
I don't have any parts and will be building from scratch so I can get a good nforce2 board. I'll be gaming mostly with some mp3 encoding but not much.
what would you do?
thanks