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gtr

11-08-2002, 04:38 PM

Wow, I stop scrolling the forums for a while and new stuff keep coming out! They talked about it and i guess you can buy the 333fsb xp2600/2700 now?

My question is how does it compare with the 266 fsb? Anybody did a review yet to see the benchmarks with various ram or anything?

thanks,

tony_j15

11-09-2002, 12:30 PM

My question is how does it compare with the 266 fsb? Anybody did a review yet to see the benchmarks with various ram or anything?

faster fsb means fasters communication, which is better, right? The ram runs at 2.7 gigs instead of 2.1

BadBadNeil

11-10-2002, 01:17 AM

From everything i've read the 2600 is available here and the 2700 in japan and i think france.

From reviews I've read the nforce 2 is strictly a 2700+ and greater mobo performance wise. Is it build around the new bus speed. Only like 2 mobos for nforce2 are out so far though.

The 2700+ processor from latest reviews i've seen on amdboard.com rate them slower than a PIV 2.53Ghz on most tests which was surprising to me but they tested the 2700+ on a KT400 board which doesnt seem to be all that great yet performance wise. Check out amdboard.com and read all about the new stuff.

I might hold out for the 2800+ since its later production than 2700+ will prolly have few tweaks. I've waited this **** long for nvidia and amd to get off their asses and release their products, they still havent even announced NV30 yet...so at this point a few more weeks aint gonna kill me.

cheapster

11-11-2002, 03:13 PM

Neil, LOL at your avatar. Nice.

Benssax

11-11-2002, 04:02 PM

I would just get a 2600+. The 2700+ is only 40mhz more..

missiveusa

11-12-2002, 11:00 AM

faster fsb means fasters communication, which is better, right? The ram runs at 2.7 gigs instead of 2.1

Not allways. Latency is lower (quicker) when fsb and RAM speeds are synchronous. That's why the KT-333 is faster than the KT-400 when run with 333 MHz RAM.

I would just get a 2600+. The 2700+ is only 40mhz more..

Yes, but the 2700+ is a rev. "B" 166 MHz bus chip. Revision "B" is a step above the "A" chip: more layers, thinner chip, faster bus speed. Tom's Hardware has a nice breakdown of the T'bred cpu's
here (http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q4/021001/xp_2800-07.html#comparison_tbred_quotbquot_vs_tbred_quotaq uot_vs_palomino) .

BadBadNeil

11-12-2002, 12:56 PM

Originally posted by cheapster
Neil, LOL at your avatar. Nice.

;) thanks