Worth getting Barton 2500 now that Athlon64 is here?

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Be aware that it will run much hotter and needs a better heatsink and a case
fan blowing out the back.
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????????? I just took an 800 Duron out of a Sony Vaio notebook. Put in
a 35w 2400+ m-Barton. Runs cooler and way better!
 
AndrewJ said:
????????? I just took an 800 Duron out of a Sony Vaio notebook. Put in
a 35w 2400+ m-Barton. Runs cooler and way better!
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Yep!!!

35w mobile barton runs (in a laptop) at 1.35v (desktop sees it as 1.52v)
desktop barton would be at 1.65v
palomino 1.75v
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SInce you're currently using a Duron 700 I'll speculate that you
don't necessarily need ultra-high performance for your
applications, that an Athlon XP would be a good bang for the buck
right now. Your motherboard and memory will be a bottleneck to
it, and I can't guarantee it will work with the Athlon from a bus
signal strength or amperage support (motherboard's onboard power
supply circuit) standpoint, but given the limitation Wes
mentioned, choosing CPU with default DDR266 FSB, it's worth a
try.
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In fact since you're keeping your old board you can just save a lot of
money and just upgrade your Duron to a faster Duron. Get a 1600 or more and
you'll probably see enough improvement for your modest requirements. They
really are quite fine for just word processing and web surfing. I dunno how
much memory you have, but if you don't have at least 512k you can spend the
savings on topping up and that will be well spent.
 
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