cpu choice

[Chuck Swiger]

Dude Dude wrote:
> i've a Athlon XP 1.8 and i want to rebuild my system.
> I was thinking in a AMD athlon barton 3.1 and a good socket A mobo like
> Asus A7N8X E-Deluxe, howvere barton is not anymore avaiable at the market,
> so what you think i shuld do ?

www.newegg.com has the "Athlon XP 3200+ Barton, 400MHz FSB, 512K Cache" for 
$170, as well the other FSB speeds of 333 and 266 MHz.  You undoubtedly could 
find other vendors which have them as well.

> Buy a socket 939 board and a Athlon64 3.2
> or
> Buy a socket A board and sempron 2.8
> or
> Buy a socket 752 board and a sempron 3.1 ??

If you are willing to replace your MB and get new RAM as well as getting a new 
CPU, then going to AMD-64 is reasonable.  If you want to continue to use your 
existing MB and memory, then simply get a faster socket A CPU.

-- 
-Chuck