Best CPU bank for buck?

[James R. Lunsford]

I'm currently running an Abit NF7 motherboard which is capable of running,
according to the Abit website "...the latest AMD Athlon XP, BartonT
processors with 200/266/333 FSB...". I currently have an AMD Athlon 2000+
XP, Palimino processor on the board. I have 512 of Kingston PC3200 DDR400,
dual channel RAM installed. I'm mostly looking for performance for the
games that I play, currently DOOM3, as well as generally increasing the
speed of the system for everyday tasks. I've never overclocked a system,
but if it's there I may give it a go.

What I was looking for is advice on which CPU would give me the most "bang
for my buck" in real world performance. I mean, I could spend $100 to get a
57% increase, but if I could spend, $25 and get a 40% increase I'd consider
that the better deal.

Thanks for any and all advice...

 

[So It's Come To This?]

I'm currently running an Abit NF7 motherboard which is capable of running,
according to the Abit website "...the latest AMD Athlon XP, BartonT
processors with 200/266/333 FSB...". I currently have an AMD Athlon 2000+
XP, Palimino processor on the board. I have 512 of Kingston PC3200
DDR400, dual channel RAM installed. I'm mostly looking for performance
for the games that I play, currently DOOM3, as well as generally
increasing the speed of the system for everyday tasks. I've never
overclocked a system, but if it's there I may give it a go.

What I was looking for is advice on which CPU would give me the most "bang
for my buck" in real world performance. I mean, I could spend $100 to get
a 57% increase, but if I could spend, $25 and get a 40% increase I'd
consider that the better deal.

Thanks for any and all advice...

The Barton Mobile 2500+ is a sweeeet deal.

 

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I'm currently running an Abit NF7 motherboard which is capable of running,
according to the Abit website "...the latest AMD Athlon XP, BartonT
processors with 200/266/333 FSB...". I currently have an AMD Athlon 2000+
XP, Palimino processor on the board. I have 512 of Kingston PC3200 DDR400,
dual channel RAM installed. I'm mostly looking for performance for the
games that I play, currently DOOM3

Doom 3 does not run so well with an Athlon XP or Pentium 4.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2149&p=7

To get great performance in Doom 3, you need an Athlon 64. You also need
a very high performance video card. An Athlon 64 3000+ and a motherboard for
it would cost around $230. Since you don't seem to want to spend so much,
you could get an Athlon XP3000+ for around $100. It will help a bit with Doom
3,
however it won't be great. It will help much more with other applications.