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Makes no sense....
Name: Mike Date: December 8, 2003 at 12:46:15 Pacific OS: winxp CPU/Ram: 2100+/1gig pc2700
Comment:
Ok, I've read many places that the multiplyer doesn't really add much performance. The ONLY difference betweet the 2500+ and the 2800+ is the multiplyer. They both have a 166fsb, but the 2800+ has a 11.5 instead of a 11 multiplyer. So if only raising the multiplyer doesn't give you much gain, why would you buy a 2800+ instead of a 2500+?
Name: SkipCox Date: December 8, 2003 at 13:03:11 Pacific
Reply:
Obviously there is a 300Mhz gain but if you run the 2800+ at default 11.5 x 166, it will not perform as well as a 2500+ running at 11 x 173. It's the matter that the whole rig will run faster, not just the cpu.
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Response Number 2
Name: Adam Date: December 8, 2003 at 16:51:38 Pacific
Reply:
The beauty of the 2500+ is that it can easily attain 3200+ performance simply by increasing the FSB to 200MHz with little or no vcore increment.
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Response Number 3
Name: WeEZeR Date: December 8, 2003 at 17:25:27 Pacific
Reply:
If you take both 2500+ and 2800+ at stock speed, it's sure that the 2800+ will run faster... Just raising the 2500's multiplier can give a great boost in performance. It's true that increasing the FSB will give a better performance boost, but not that much. I have a 1800+ who can run at a maximum of 1925 mhz, and it perform near the same when running at 133 FSB and 175 FSB...
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Response Number 4
Name: Mike Date: December 8, 2003 at 20:39:08 Pacific
Reply:
First off thx for all the responses. I only have pc2700 memory, crucial (i've heard not a good overclocker), so I'll probaly only raise the fsb to 180 at MAX. That being said, all I can really do is change the multiplyer to obtain 2.02 or 2.2 Ghz.
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Response Number 5
Name: SkipCox Date: December 8, 2003 at 22:22:06 Pacific
Reply:
Don't underestimate your memory. You may be surprised.
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