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Old July 1st 03, 06:47 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Wes Newell
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Default Did I make a mistake?

On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 01:37:11 +0000, Ransack The Elder wrote:

Ordered a new processor today, I ordered the XP 2600+. Should I have
gotten the Barton 2500 instead? I went with clock speed over cache, both
are the same price. Would the slower Barton's extra cache be better for
video capturing/editing?


Yes, you should have gotten the Barton. Both will probably clock to about
the same speed, but the Barton has twice the L2 cache.

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