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| 157348 | 2003-07-04 04:58:00 | I have an Athlon XP 1800 with 266 FSB with 512MB of 333Mhz RAM on a ASUS KT333 mobo. I am thinking of upgrading to a 333 FSB Athlon. There are 2 versions available. Barton (512KB Cache/slower core) or Non Barton (256KB Cache/faster Core). I generally play RTS with the main CPU processing the AI being the only delay. |
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| 157349 | 2003-07-04 05:43:00 | All the people I know with Bartrons are finding them great, if you afford it and it will work in your board I'd go with it. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 157350 | 2003-07-07 00:42:00 | Thanks for that. The fact that I am going from 1800 to 2800 and internally from below 1500 to 2000, it will show a significant difference. I will upgrade to the Barton Version. |
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| 157351 | 2003-07-07 03:56:00 | Why not try overclocking that motherboard and cpu? Apparently that motherboard you have works really well with overclocking. | PoWa (203) | ||
| 157352 | 2003-07-07 05:34:00 | OC is not really my cup of tea. I go more for stability and smoothness. Once I have upgraded the CPU FSB to 333, I will have one less thing to worry about, if I do decide to OC. It is an A7V333 Mobo. A well reviewed board. However, the newer nforce2 boards do seem better in reviews, which wasn't around when I got this one. The end result of the work will be the latest BIOS as well as the faster CPU. A good base to start OC'ing if I need to. |
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