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Athlon XP Question

hooneeawr

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I recently got my old PC that I used at work away home with me. For as long as I remember, it was an AMD XP2000. I bought a barton XP2500 to swap in.
When I removed the heatsink though, I was surprised by the label on the processor. Turns out all this time it was an XP2600 running at a lower FSB. Sure enough, I went into the BIOS and bumped it up from 133 to 166 and it runs just fine. GRR! Just think of all that compile time I could have saved at work had I known!

Now, the XP2600 is a thoroughbred. How does this perform against the slower but higher cached barton XP2500?
 
The 2600 vs 2500 gives you a clue :p At stock they will be very close with the 2600 just edging it. But the Barton might have more headroom if you can overclock.
 
Well, thats just it, even though the 2600 is a faster chip, the 2500 has the barton core and more cache.
I'm not sure about the overclocking ability of this board. It's an Asus A7V8X-X. It doesn't support processors above 333 fsb. I might just try both with some tests. Also I have a 6600gt and a 6800le which I have to compare. Aint old technology fun?
 
i had the same board and despite it only clocking to 333 it will actually go quite abit further, as for the barton, the 2500M was one of the best chips you could get on socket A. even if you only clocked it a little bit, (i.e. up to 2600 speeds) it would probably take the lead in most areas due to its design.
 
The 1st cpu I really ever actually overclocked significantly was an XP-M 2600+ Barton. It would run 2.7GHz @ 1.75v happily for as long as I had it.
 
Hesky82 said:
The 1st cpu I really ever actually overclocked significantly was an XP-M 2600+ Barton. It would run 2.7GHz @ 1.75v happily for as long as I had it.
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2.7ghz. very nice. would still be worth having today tbh 2.4 was the most i ever got out of an xp (3000+ and 3200+)

btw i recently did an upgrade on a mates pc the guy who origonally made it him put a 3200+ into a board that was incapable of running above 166. to make it worse the guy had the mobo jumper set to 133. when the pc was first built the 3200+ was still selling for over £100 so a very costly mistake from one amature builder.

it worked out good for me mind i got to keep all the old parts i swopped out so i poped that into my sn45g-v3 shuttle which also cured a ram error i was having with my 3000+ (166) installed.. which was nice. its also kinda cool having a lil system somewhere with the fastest of the xp series chips in it. sad i know.
 
TheMorningStar said:
2.7ghz. very nice. would still be worth having today tbh 2.4 was the most i ever got out of an xp (3000+ and 3200+)

btw i recently did an upgrade on a mates pc the guy who origonally made it him put a 3200+ into a board that was incapable of running above 166. to make it worse the guy had the mobo jumper set to 133. when the pc was first built the 3200+ was still selling for over £100 so a very costly mistake from one amature builder.

it worked out good for me mind i got to keep all the old parts i swopped out so i poped that into my sn45g-v3 shuttle which also cured a ram error i was having with my 3000+ (166) installed.. which was nice. its also kinda cool having a lil system somewhere with the fastest of the xp series chips in it. sad i know.
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SN45GV3 :cool: IIRC you could run up to 2v cpu vcore if you select the 'above 1.85v option' :eek:

That’s actually what I used back when I had my 2600+ xp-m, I got that chip from California just because it was from a pretty good batch.

I later got an SN95G5V2 Athlon 64 and tbh that was a much faster machine running a Winchester at 2.5ghz and a little less fickle.

I practically lived on the Sud.hian SFF forum for a few years!
 
XanderThal said:
hardly, i still own a 486DX2 66. :) nostalgia...
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heh. the XP line is special to me as that's when I got into PCs. My first CPU being a 2000+. Only last month did I give that CPU away to a friend on an emergency PC build.




Hesky82 said:
SN45GV3 :cool: IIRC you could run up to 2v cpu vcore if you select the 'above 1.85v option' :eek:

That’s actually what I used back when I had my 2600+ xp-m, I got that chip from California just because it was from a pretty good batch.

I later got an SN95G5V2 Athlon 64 and tbh that was a much faster machine running a Winchester at 2.5ghz and a little less fickle.

I practically lived on the Sud.hian SFF forum for a few years!
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Yeah I had a play with the vcore settings in my sn45g-v3. The above 1.85 always worried me a little tbh (WTF where they doing putting that in a shuttle? lol) but I did use it atleast once.. oddly I seem to remember it displaying diferently in bios after you enable it once... but I may have been Imagening that.

I also have a sn25p wich firstly had a 3000+ venice in it (man it took a month to find a good damn Venice, they had just come out.) took that all the way to 300 htt (fsb) to 2.7ghz. It liked the volts though. 1.5/1.55 I think. My best overclock to this day though 900mhz. A stunning overclock but nothing like the C2Ds are getting now.

And hey I'm on Sud quite a bit and have been for a while. (God knows why it's sensored on the OCUK forums btw its not a competitor, just a community site) I use TheMorningStar now but I was BlueDevil but my login dissapeared when they did the last forum upgrade. tbh the site has slipped so much I had no real interest in tracking down my old login. They used to be stunning, busy forums but I think a few of the american admins killed the site. They just don't get the english eh...
 
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