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Topic: Duron CPU's
started by: Neophyre

Posted by Neophyre on Dec. 18 2000,19:59

I've been hearing alot about Duron's, but not alot about it over here in Australia.

Pro's? Con's?

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

Posted by DuSTman on Dec. 18 2000,20:23

That post implies that you think the duron is an intel CPU. It's an AMD.

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

Posted by aventari on Dec. 18 2000,21:54

Durons are almost identical to the new AMD Athlon Thunderbird, but the main difference is that Durons have 64k L2 Cache and the Thundbirds have 256k.

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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Posted by Neophyre on Dec. 18 2000,23:20

yeh sorry i stuffed up on that one

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

Posted by Cyrino on Dec. 19 2000,00:45

If you're strapped for cash, definitely go Duron.