Thanx for making me feel stupid..........
I was merely pointing out the fact that there's not a 2500+ bartone core and one that isn't, so he doesn't wind up thinking that there's two different kinds of 2500's..
I dont no wat a barton core is but i looked on google and it says its a barton core Socket A ect.
Every CPU has a different name for the core or 'architecture' on which is based off of...the 2500+ - 3200+ XP's use the same core, the barton core, unlike the 2400+ and previous versions were Thoroughbred, and I forget what it was before that, this is why you can OC the 2500+ to 3200+ Speeds, because of that reason, they use the same core, so you can be assured that it's solid and should perform up to 3200+ standards...
I haven't had much experience with gigabyte boards, but my brother has one and I wasn't impressed. My two favorite companies thus far are ABit and MSI out of ASUS, ABit, MSI, The little I know about gigabyte thus far, AZZA, SiS and one Intel board that was god knows what...
The absolute best overclockable chip those is the XP-M which is basically the XP except the M stands for Mobile, yes you can put a laptop CPU in a desktop, because they both use the same socket, Socket A, the mobile chip is 35w compared to a desktop chip is 65w and has a lower Vcore, so it'll be way easier to keep it cool while overclocking. Got mine sitting up at 2.5 from 1.8