AMD athlon 2600+ thoroughbred or barton?

[jagnorm]

I'm confused. I was looking at processors on a couple of different web sites. I saw the AMD 2600+ shown as a barton and one as a thoroughbred. Are there two different ones or is one of the web sites inacurate?

[Atomic Rooster]

Yup. There are two different 2600+ CPU's. The Barton runs at 333Mhz and the Thouroughbred runs at 266mhz.

[jagnorm]

tcwo.com advertises a AMD 2600+ thorougbred with a 333fsb is that different than running at 333Mhz?

[Atomic Rooster]

It's the same.

I just had a look around and it seems that the Thoroughbred does run a 333Mhz FSB. (Oops, my bad.)

It looks like the only real difference between the two is the the Barton core CPU has double the on-die L2 cache at 512K as compared to the T-Bred's 256K.

[RedFury]

Now look at the actual clock speeds. The Tbred is faster than the Barton.

At least when I was looking at the 2500+'s. 266mhz Tbred ran at 2.0 ghz and the 333mhz Barton was 1.83 ghz. Stange.

[jagnorm]

Thanks, The 2600 was the chip I was thinking of going with. But after reading the forums, I think I will probably go with 2500.

[Starfury_2260]

i got a 2600+ barton and took it right up to 3200+ speed (11x200) with no voltage changes.

[jagnorm]

ok, I'm not a big gamer though I do like some games that use a lot of graphics. I probably won't be over clocking. I just want a fast and stable system.
Right now I am running an AMD1300 which runs well, But I want faster and I'm going to switch to a MB that takes DDR. pc2700.
My present MB only takes SDram pc133.

Do You think I'd be better off with the AMD 2600 over the 2500?

[jagnorm]

I recieved a reply from Starfury_2260 from resellerratings thinking it was the same as techimo. what is the conection and why doesn't my reply show up here at techimo?

[jagnorm]

never mind, web site is slow, my reply just showed up.....