What CPU should I get ?

[Scottie]

I screwed up my daughters computer the other day and I'm thinking of getting the Athlon XP 2200 but I'm not sure if it will powerful enough for games ? what do you think ?

SHould I get one alittle faster?

[Faustus]

If your looking in the area of value I see the 2600+ and the new AMD Sempron 2800+ onsale at my local fry's WITH a system board for quite cheap every few weeks.

[Scottie]

Thanks I live in Canada and here are the only prices I can see from where I get them from.

AMD SEMPRON 2400 Retail Box -----$89
Athlon XP2200+ Retail Box -----$99
Celeron 1.7GHz Retail Box -----$79
P4-2.4AE 533MHz 1M RB -----$175

I have the XP 3200+ Barton myself but this one is for my 7 Year old daughter, but also for me if I ever have friends over to play LAN games.

SO you think a Athlon 2600 would be good for games ?

Thanks for your help.

[bazooka]

SO you think a Athlon 2600 would be good for games ?

Thanks for your help.

Yes, it should be good for games.

[rallynavvie]

It won't be a problem with the processor, you just need a video card that can handle it. I was playing FarCry with pretty good framerates on a 1900 and GF4 4400. If you've got any DX9 native card in with that 2600 you'll be fine, even DX8 cards with 128MB VRAM will work fine.

[Scottie]

OK so I got a Barton 3200 that rams at 400 MHZ FSB I would like to get a simular MB for her and CPU so I can split my 512 MB of Ram and give her half to save some money at first then get 1 GB of Ram for myself later and give her the other 256 MB, but I want it running in Daul Channel at 400 MHZ.

Do you know what AMD CPU's suport 400 Mhz ?

[Faustus]

The CPU bus speed and memory bus speed on AMD boards are not always the same thing these days. So you can often run the Memory at one speed even though the CPU is say 333mhz.

Of course matching speeds is always nice, if so you'd want to look at this CPU

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-391&depa=1