Can someone give an honest opinion 2800XP+Barton

I have been reading about thunderbirds,athalons, and bartons, all
week, and I can honestly say that I am 100% confused!!!

I just ordered a new system, that will be used mainly for audio and
home video files, as well as surfing the net.This is my first AMD
processor (have been fooled by Intel for 20 years) The new system is
as follows:

* AMD Athlon XP Barton 2800+ 2.083 GHz 333Mhz BUS 512k
* Spire WhisperRock IV ultra quite Copper Base socket A fan
* ASUS A7N8XDX NFORCE2 DDR400, 8XAGP, Sound, Lan, SATA, IEEE, USB2.0
* 2 X 512Mb PC 3200 DDR400
* 40.0GB Maxtor DiamondMax 7200rpm UDMA 133
* CD/CD-RW/DVD COMBO 52x24x52x16
* Mitsumi 3.5" floppy disk 1.44 Mb
* 256 Bit AGP 3D Graphics card (up to 64 mb shared onboard)
* AC 97 32 BIT Full Duplex sound card (onboard)
* 56K V.90 AMR/CNR Modem riser card
* 10/100 Network card adapter (onboard)
* PowMax Mid Tower ATX Case 300W w/ Front USB
* Multimedia amplified stereo speakers
I also plan to use HDD and CD/RW drives from my %$% HP Pavilion ( if
possible) comments appreciated.

Thanks for your time,
Wildbill

I'd reccomend a bigger hard drive for one, if you're doing music and video.
You can burn up forty gigs right quick. (Maybe you should even get into
RAID; I've got a crapload of storage coming soon...so I'll have near a half
terabyte w00t). If you're using XP Professional on your Pavillion you will
need to reformat the drive to make it work in a new drive controller setup.

Honestly to me it almost sounds like overkill, but better over than
underbuilt.

Thunderbird: First Athlon core for Socket 462. 100 or 133 MHz front side
bus. Non-DDR AFAIK. I wouldn't buy one, you can get an Applebred Duron at
1.6 for maybe $5 more.

T-Bred: There are two versions of this core which is a tremendous
improvement on the tbird. Most XP anythings (excepting some 2500, 2600,
2800s and all 3000 and 3200s) are all T-Bred cores.

Barton: More cache than the T-bred and more effecient
architecture...therefore lower clock rates and higher performance. XP3000,
3200s are all Bartons as well as certain 2500, 2600, 2700 and 2800 model XP
processors.

If you need more info, lemme know, or ask Wes; he's more of a wizard at the
real nitty-gritty. Good luck and have fun.

--
Doug Whitesell
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"Wildbill" <wildbillnwv RemoveThis @charter.net> wrote in message
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 > I have been reading about thunderbirds,athalons, and bartons, all
 > week, and I can honestly say that I am 100% confused!!!
 >
 > I just ordered a new system, that will be used mainly for audio and
 > home video files, as well as surfing the net.This is my first AMD
 > processor (have been fooled by Intel for 20 years) The new system is
 > as follows:
 >
 > * AMD Athlon XP Barton 2800+ 2.083 GHz 333Mhz BUS 512k
 > * Spire WhisperRock IV ultra quite Copper Base socket A fan
 > * ASUS A7N8XDX NFORCE2 DDR400, 8XAGP, Sound, Lan, SATA, IEEE, USB2.0
 > * 2 X 512Mb PC 3200 DDR400
 > * 40.0GB Maxtor DiamondMax 7200rpm UDMA 133
 > * CD/CD-RW/DVD COMBO 52x24x52x16
 > * Mitsumi 3.5" floppy disk 1.44 Mb
 > * 256 Bit AGP 3D Graphics card (up to 64 mb shared onboard)
 > * AC 97 32 BIT Full Duplex sound card (onboard)
 > * 56K V.90 AMR/CNR Modem riser card
 > * 10/100 Network card adapter (onboard)
 > * PowMax Mid Tower ATX Case 300W w/ Front USB
 > * Multimedia amplified stereo speakers
 > I also plan to use HDD and CD/RW drives from my %$% HP Pavilion ( if
 > possible) comments appreciated.
 >
 > Thanks for your time,
 > Wildbill
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