Fine, I didn;t want ot actually have to go through all this work, but since you are so good.
In these test you can clearly see the barton at 2500+ clearly beats the 2000+ (which has only a minor difference with a 2100+[its about 15 frames or less difference]) by 50 or more fps
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030210/barton-14.html
notcie how well it does overclocked
then if you will follow your eyes to the following pages you will see that the Barton at 2500+ gets a score 1000 higher than a 2000+ in 3dmark2001 not much, but notice the OC scores
ok shall we continue? UT2k3
almost a 40 fps difference. hardly worth it? please that can mean life or death when the action gets thick.
comanche 4 (a game that hates fps)
barton at only 2500+ gets 53fps while the 2000+ (remember very similar to 2100+) gets 40...
again note the OC scores
why get a barton? because the AMD chips up to the 2500+ are a bitch to overclock (it involves glue, silver paint, and it can get ugly) where as the newer chips come unlocked (all you have to do to overclock is set it in your BIOS) very easy
the nvidia board is trusted by many people and is a rock solid overclocker. its stable and the APU and integrated ethernet Do not harm performance like other boards will (sure its minimal but still notable up to 15%)
http://www6.tomshardware.com/game/20...tml#benchmarks
That little bit of extra money is well worth it and will keep that machine nice and fast in the long run.
theres you're facts... read it, love it, leave it I dont really care.
2003-04-08, 01:23 AM
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