I'm thinking of upgrading my CPU to the Barton 2500.

I have an Athlon 1.3 now.

Is this a good choice of an upgrade at this point in time or should I be looking at other CPU's?

I'll be putting it on an Asus A7N8X with Win98SE.

Any suggestions welcomed and appreciated.

What is the fastest CPU that your motherboard/BIOS supports?

Shelly

A7N8X specs according to the ASUS website -

Processor
Socket A for AMD® Athlon™ XP/ Athlon™/ Duron™ 600MHz ~ 2.8GHz+
Thoroughbred core CPU ready

Chipset
North Bridge: NVIDIA® nForce2 SPP
South Bridge: NVIDIA® nForce2 MCP-T(Deluxe Model) / MCP

FSB
333 / 266 / 200 MHz

Memory
Dual-Channel DDR 400
3 x 184-pin DIMM Sockets
Max. 3 GB unbuffered PC3200/PC2700/PC2100/PC1600 non-ECC DDR RAM Memory (Twinbank)

Edit - I have one of these also - deluxe version - really nice motherboard

Shelly,

Glenn answered your question.

Thanks for jumpng in there Glenn.

My board is the Deluxe also Rev 2.0

The A7N8X Deluxe Rev 2.0 will support the Athlon XP 3200+ with PC3200 or faster memory.

Am I the only one that cringes at the prospect of an Nforce2 board, a Barton 2500 and Windows 98?

I would upgrade to XP at the same time.

>Am I the only one that cringes at the prospect of an Nforce2
>board, a Barton 2500 and Windows 98?
>
>I would upgrade to XP at the same time.

No doubt you're correct about changing my OS.
I've been told this before.
Maybe next Christmas.

I have always tried to keep up with OS changes
but I didn't make it this time around.

Thanks for the reply.