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Barton 2500 OC

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JdoubleG

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I, like most of you i'm sure, am looking for the cheapest way to get more out of my computer. I'm running an AthlonXP 2500 on a Albatron Kx400-8x with 640mb of pc2700 ram and an Nvidia Geforce 5200 Graphics card.

Obviously that Graphics card is a good place to start, but I've heard that a 2500 will OC to 3200 if ran with Pc3200 ram. So maybe I can kill two birds with one stone. The only limit to what i can do is that I only have just over 100 dollars.

Thoughts as to weather I should replace the graphics card, the ram, or something else entirely?
-JdoubleG :D
 
OC your barton (is it a desktop CPU or mobile?)

I would sell the ram, and get KVR PC3200 512mb. They are pretty decent if your're on a tight budget. I've done 2.2GHz on a KVR, 200FSB 11x

save the rest of the cash and get a decent graphics card

oh btw..change the font color!!
 
Ok, so I just new egged Video cards and it looked like the best for my money under 120 dollars is either an Nvidia 5700 or a Radeon 9600pro.
Thoughts?
 
JdoubleG said:
I, like most of you i'm sure, am looking for the cheapest way to get more out of my computer. I'm running an AthlonXP 2500 on a Albatron Kx400-8x with 640mb of pc2700 ram and an Nvidia Geforce 5200 Graphics card.

Obviously that Graphics card is a good place to start, but I've heard that a 2500 will OC to 3200 if ran with Pc3200 ram. So maybe I can kill two birds with one stone. The only limit to what i can do is that I only have just over 100 dollars.

Thoughts as to weather I should replace the graphics card, the ram, or something else entirely?
-JdoubleG :D
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okay man, lemme be the first to say that your choice of colors absolutely sucks!

now that thats out of the way, someone please tell me what his post does say cuz that stupid dark blue/purple color is killing my eyes.
 
I, like most of you i'm sure, am looking for the cheapest way to get more out of my computer. I'm running an AthlonXP 2500 on a Albatron Kx400-8x with 640mb of pc2700 ram and an Nvidia Geforce 5200 Graphics card.

Obviously that Graphics card is a good place to start, but I've heard that a 2500 will OC to 3200 if ran with Pc3200 ram. So maybe I can kill two birds with one stone. The only limit to what i can do is that I only have just over 100 dollars.

Thoughts as to weather I should replace the graphics card, the ram, or something else entirely?
-JdoubleG



sry bout the colors the first time around...
 
The ram is Crucial pc2700 with a CAS latency of 2.5. I'm not sure how to find the rest of the latency's. I have one 512 chip and one 128.
 
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