Athlon XP 2900 and Chaintech nforce2 motherboard $80 AR

[dualblade]

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...etails.asp?EdpNo=1166612&Sku=MBM-7NJL6-XP2900

seems like a pretty good deal for someone building an entry level system

 

[TheDoucheMan]

thats a pretty good deal i guess,... although there isn't an athlon xp 2900+ so that makes me weary.

 

[diehard]

thats a pretty good deal i guess,... although there isn't an athlon xp 2900+ so that makes me weary.

- Processor Speed: 2.08 GHz XP 2900+
- Cache Size: 512KB

Is it the sempron with the 512kb? But the rating should be higher if it was..

 

[Deadlierchair]

In the past some CPU's in the Athlon line were custom made and not really official, like a 2300+ was made for eMachines, so it is possible that this could be a case of that.

 

[icthus13]

2.08 GHz and 512k cache sounds a lot like a 2800+

 

[vbrtrmn]

I read (lost the sources, sorry) that the XP2900's had many issues. That's why no one ever saw very many of them. They were a short release, AMD is probably trying to unload them all now.

 

[texuspete00]

^^ Sorry dude but you're smoking. It would just be a barton. There wouldn't be some magical problem with a specific speed bin!

 

[Oh4Sh0]

I had a 2900+ barton with 400mhz fsb and 512k l2.. I think the difference between the 2800 and 2900 was that the 2800 barton only had a 333mhz fsb.. and where as the 2900 kept the same core speed, the fsb was upped to 400mhz. I used it in a system I sold on ebay with that exact mobo. Ran nice before I sold it.