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Old 08-04-2004, 06:46 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Whats the slowest Athlon XP processor that is worth buying becasue it wont be obsolete in a week.
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Old 08-04-2004, 06:51 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Whats the slowest Athlon XP processor that is worth buying becasue it wont be obsolete in a week.
1700+ with the right stepping are fun to play with...but there "obsolete". i'd go with the mobile 2400+. cheap and overclocks like mad too. for a few $ more u can get a 2600+
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a barton like mine is about 160 bucks OEM. no reason to buy anything retail.
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a barton like mine is about 160 bucks OEM. no reason to buy anything retail.
$160 for a 2.2ghz cpu? i;d go with the 2600+mobile (its also barton) http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...103-436&depa=1 only $95 and it'll go 2.5+ on air. it seems liek a better deal to me.
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i'm not a huge fan of mobile processors. i did some checking just now and my processor has went down considerably...it's about 115-130 bucks.
lot of people dig the mobiles, i just don't.
neweggs prices are high too...180 for my barton and i have found it for 120.
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i'm not a huge fan of mobile processors.
what dont u like about them? they're cheaper, cooler (temp wise lol), still have 512k L2 cache like a desktop barton, overclock considerably more than any XP barton desktop...i cant seem to think of anything that would turn someone away from them.
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i'd go with the mobile 2400
That'll be the TBred ... you'll want the Barton at the least so get the XP2500

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i cant seem to think of anything that would turn someone away from them.
They're not (always) cheaper
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Wait so mobiles will overclock faster?
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They're not (always) cheaper
true...but who buys a mobile at a store and pays too much? u gotta be pretty lazy to not order from neeweegg or somewhere cheap.
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People typically get mobiles because their multipliers are not locked. Makes for good overclocking. Newer standard amd chips multipiers are lock rendering it harder to do certain things in the overclocking arena.
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