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i just recently made about 120$ doing a tree job and i was wondering if i should buy a 2500+ barton or just buy more ram and save the rest for better vid card. All in all i just wanna be able to keep up wit my friends p4 2.6 800mhz fsb he has 512 mb ram and a fx 5200
 
Yea thats a good idea.

Get some 2 dollar ram sinks, some epoxy, new gpu cooler, get all the stuff for your cpu liquid cooling, and i bet that all comes out to 50-100, you still may have enough left over to get some ram. (depending on what you get of course.) You can get all kinds of stuff off ebay, and the "egg". Hardforum classifieds are also good.
 
If it's a TbredB and that NF7 is an -S v2.0, those XP2000+s can go farr... see how far you can push it. 1.8GHz-2.0GHz shouldn't be too far away.

Then I'd save up for a new video card... cos an FX5200 isn't hard to beat. Even a 9600NP would take it to its knees.
 
The 2500+ and P4 2.6 are pretty close in performance. For gaming the 2500+ probably has a edge over the P4 2.6 as well. Your video card would be holding you back tho, getting a 9600 or newer series of card would probably make much more of a difference than a CPU upgrade.
 
Originally posted by tdg
The 2500+ and P4 2.6 are pretty close in performance. For gaming the 2500+ probably has a edge over the P4 2.6 as well. Your video card would be holding you back tho, getting a 9600 or newer series of card would probably make much more of a difference than a CPU upgrade.
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Nah. The 2.6C is a very very powerful processor. Armed with dual channel RAM with tight timings, it can take even a 280+/3200+. Not even talking about overclocking!
 
Originally posted by tdg
The 2500+ and P4 2.6 are pretty close in performance. For gaming the 2500+ probably has a edge over the P4 2.6 as well. Your video card would be holding you back tho, getting a 9600 or newer series of card would probably make much more of a difference than a CPU upgrade.
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The 2500+ and 2.6c are somewhat close in a few benches at stock speeds but once you go over 3GHz with overclocking the 2.6c the 2500+ can't touch it in a single benchmark.
 
Why are you so bent on keeping up with the Joneses? Don't buy more stuff if you're already satisfied with your comp, not just because your friend has a faster proc and a crappy video card (the 5200FX).

But if you gotta...

The Athlon 2700+ is a non-Barton core, which means it only has 256KB cache. The 2500+ Barton would be a much better choice overall thanks to the 512KB of L2 cache, and it generally has very good overclocking potential.

You're running 256 MB of RAM, what games do you people play? 256 MB is generally okay (it's how much I have in the machine I'm on now), a bump to 512 wouldn't hurt.

The video card would probably be last on my list of upgrading (the Radeon 9200) since its performance is probably roughly the same as the 5200. The only thing you're missing out on is DX9, and with a 5200, you're not gonna be using DX9 to the max anyway.


Suggestions: Proc first for a quick speed bump, then some RAM for a little more performance. Then when you get the cash, buy a nice card like the Ati Radeon 9700.

The combination of these three parts should give you a good comparable computer, unless your friend decides to slap a gig of RAM and a 9800 Pro or something in his comp.
 
sorry if i sound confusing but the main ones im focusing on are the 2500+ the 2600+ and the 2800+ barton processors buying the 2800+ would blow my tree job money , the 2600+ would leave me about 40 for some ram and the 2500+ would save me some money for vid card or more ram. All of these processesors im planning opn buying retail and im not planning on overclocking any time soon cus im still new to the apsect of it.
 
Just get the 2500+. Eventually, when you do decide to overclock, you'll negate the whole $20 difference between it and the 2600+.
 
god im confused i already spent my birthday money on a wireless pci card and a dvd reading drive
 
I really don't think $120 is enough for a WC setup. Save it and then buy a video card when the spring refresh comes 'round.
 
Originally posted by Mad_Pyro
I really don't think $120 is enough for a WC setup. Save it and then buy a video card when the spring refresh comes 'round.
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