Pro's? Con's?

Whats the difference between a Duron, and Intel's other processors?

It's the budget model, AFAIK they only manufacture durons up to 850MHz. Good price/performance ratio. Not quite as fast clock for clock as an athlon, but not far off.

socket A, so uses the same motherboards as modern athlons...
http://www.dansdata.com/duron.htm - good review from an aussie :]

This message has been edited by DuSTman on December 18, 2000 at 03:24 PM

It makes a marginal speed difference depending on the kind of computing you're doing.

You can read all you'll ever want to know about it: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1314

For the price/performance ratio, you CANNOT beat the Duron. Plus, 75\% of them overclock to 900+mhz. So for โ US, you can have a 900mhz cpu. not bad.

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i currently have a p166 so im in desperate need of an upgrade soon