AMD 2800 XP Vs. 3200 XP

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IS there much of a difference between the AMD athlon XP 3200 and the 2800.

I'd rather get the 2800 since it's a lot cheaper......but will it still run pretty fast?



also...what does it do if you have an 8MB buffer hard drive?
 
Shoot. Just get the 2500+ for $90 and you can easily over clock that boy to 2800. And for that matter, you can get it up to 3200 without really breaking a sweat too.
 
and also...what's better....
an ATI Radeon 9600 XT 128 MB DDR
ATI Radeon 9600 XT 256 DDR
or a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 - SE 128 DDR
 
It's very easy to learn. Just look around in google searches. There are two very easy ways for the 2500+. First you can set the multiplier a little higher. Mine allows me to go up to 12.5x. If you leave the FSB (RAM) alone and set at 166mhz, XP will recognize as a 2800+

The second thing you can do is what I did. You leave the multiplier alone, (stock is 11x) and push the FSB forward to 200mhz. You need to have PC3200 or higher to do this effectively. When I loaded up at 200fsb x 11x multiplier, XP recognized this set up as a 3200+. It's running at 2.2Ghz.

To do this configurations, go into your BIOS and look under the Chipset options.

*note - if you do this and the computer is not running stable, try increasing the voltage to the CPU and/or RAM.

Hope this helps.

P.S. I'd go with the 9600XT 128. It's a beast. You really can't tell the difference between 128 and 256. Maybe unless you're playing Doom 3 with the rates maxed out. But if you're going for a 256 card, you might as well just get the 9800XT or the 5950 Ultra.
 
my 2500+ is running at 13x 167mhz equals 2.2ghz however windows recognizes it as a 2500+ but it says runs at 2.2ghz.

im happy since i paid 135CDN for it 3 months ago Multi UNLOCKED haha
 
2.2Ghz is correct, AMD has good arcitecture. thats why they use the naming convention xp3200 instead of 2.2Ghz. your xp2500 was not multiplier unlocked. and congrats i see you have reached 100 ;)
 
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