[Liberator]

Okay, honestly now, how much performance increase is there in an Athlon XP 2000 over and Athlon XP 1800?

[Kamikaze]

I'd assume about 200 mhz...

Correction: About 0.14Ghz

[Stryke 9]

Pick a number.


Pick another number.



Bet neither was 14083.




I'd be more helpful, but honestly I think that's about as much as I can give you. Tough economy and all.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Seek benchmarks.
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[diamondgeezer]

Bugger all difference really, but you might as well get the cheaper 1800 and overclock it a little to get the same performance as the 2000. The heat increase ought to be negligable. Got my 1800 overclocked to 2.0GHz

[Grey Wolf]

That's about what most 1800+s overclock to. The best overclockers, from what I've seen, are 1700+s (Thouroughbred B cores), 2100+s (Tbred B), and 2500+s (Bartons).

[Ulundel]

Speaking of overclocking, do you guys know any handy tools to do that under windows or some utility to ajust VIA chipset mobos' FSB?

That BIOS I have couldn't be less tweakable

[Grey Wolf]

Hmm.... Check the actual brand of the motherboard you're using. Often, OEMs use motherboards by Asus and the like, and if you flash the motherboard with a BIOS from the manufacturer instead of the OEM, it'll sometimes unlock some of the locked features.

[Kosh]

I don't think there was much of a difference in terms of performance.

but you might as well get the cheaper 1800 and overclock it a little to get the same performance as the 2000.

Some of us don't want to void our warrenties.

[diamondgeezer]

Well excuse me Grandpa

<-- lives dangerously

[vyper]

What kind of stability have u had with overclocking the Athlon dg?

[diamondgeezer]

at 2.00, it was perfectly happy. Admitedly I use one of these: