Worth upgrading a 2100+ T'bred to a 3000+ Barton?

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I'm planning on giving my old PC to my dad. It's an Athlon 2100+ (oc'd to
2.1g) with 1 gig of pc3200 DDR Ram. My motherboard can do 400mhz fsb, but
the 2100 can only do 266mhz (and I think it only has 256 L2 cache).

Would a 3000+ or 3200+ Barton see enough of a speed increase (they both have
400 fsb and 512 L2 cache) to justify the upgrade?
 
Sol said:
I'm planning on giving my old PC to my dad. It's an Athlon 2100+ (oc'd to
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2.1g) with 1 gig of pc3200 DDR Ram. My motherboard can do 400mhz fsb, but
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the 2100 can only do 266mhz (and I think it only has 256 L2 cache).

Would a 3000+ or 3200+ Barton see enough of a speed increase (they both have
400 fsb and 512 L2 cache) to justify the upgrade?
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In my opinion, no.
Especially considering the prices that the 3200 Barton goes for.
Cheers!
 
Sol said:
I'm planning on giving my old PC to my dad. It's an Athlon 2100+ (oc'd to
2.1g) with 1 gig of pc3200 DDR Ram. My motherboard can do 400mhz fsb, but
the 2100 can only do 266mhz (and I think it only has 256 L2 cache).

Would a 3000+ or 3200+ Barton see enough of a speed increase (they both
have 400 fsb and 512 L2 cache) to justify the upgrade?
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If you do, you gain 100Mhz of CPU speed, and 256Kb of L2. Still stuck with
PC2100 single channel. Seat of the pants feel: close to zero. And this is
assuming your m/b BIOS can be flashed to support the Barton series. Not
worth it.
 
I'm planning on giving my old PC to my dad. It's an Athlon 2100+ (oc'd to
2.1g) with 1 gig of pc3200 DDR Ram. My motherboard can do 400mhz fsb, but
the 2100 can only do 266mhz (and I think it only has 256 L2 cache).

Would a 3000+ or 3200+ Barton see enough of a speed increase (they both have
400 fsb and 512 L2 cache) to justify the upgrade?
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No. Don't waste your money on it. If you want more speed out of what you
have now, set the multiplier back to default 13 and raise the FSB to
166MHz, or drop the multiplier to 11 and raise the FSB to 200MHz. You
will probably need to raise vcore to at least 1.65v. FWIW, my old 2100+
would do 2400MHZ fairly easy at 24x100 on an old KT7 MB.
 
Sol said:
I'm planning on giving my old PC to my dad. It's an Athlon 2100+ (oc'd to
2.1g) with 1 gig of pc3200 DDR Ram. My motherboard can do 400mhz fsb, but
the 2100 can only do 266mhz (and I think it only has 256 L2 cache).

Would a 3000+ or 3200+ Barton see enough of a speed increase (they both have
400 fsb and 512 L2 cache) to justify the upgrade?
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Depends on what he does. I recently went from an 1800+ w/266FSB to a 2700+
with 333FSB and don't really see any difference for my use which is mainly
browsing, email, word processing and spreadsheet work. Only the benchmarks
indicate a difference.
 
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