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Athlon XP Question

hooneeawr

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?
 
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?
 
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