Duron or Athlon

[aintgottime]

Which is better 800mhz Duron or a 1000mhz Athlon??

[amphoteric88]

athlon, easily
higher cache

[zapjb]

Yup.

[CornerPocket]

Originally posted by amphoteric88@2 May 2003 - 10:41
athlon, easily
higher cache
Has my vote!

[Paul_NFFC]

duron sucks, athlon is WAY better believe me

duron is cheaper and more rubbish than an athlon

just like pentium 4 is alot better than celeron

[amphoteric88]

yep, the amd duron's are basically a cut-down version of the amd athlon processors. basically the only real difference is the lower cached on the cpu for the duron's
exactly the same with the intel pentium's and celeron's, just as Nottingham_Forest_Football_Club said.
if you're looking for something cheap for a basic computer, than go for the duron, if you want some more speed, go with the athlon

[Switeck]

Also, the Athlon processor might have a 266 Mhz FSB while the Duron only has a 200 Mhz FSB.
So even if both are 1 Ghz or faster, the newer Athlons at that speed have a HUGE edge over the same-speed Duron... on top of having a larger Level-2 Cache.

[amphoteric88]

Originally posted by Switeck@4 May 2003 - 00:53
Also, the Athlon processor might have a 266 Mhz FSB while the Duron only has a 200 Mhz FSB.
So even if both are 1 Ghz or faster, the newer Athlons at that speed have a HUGE edge over the same-speed Duron... on top of having a larger Level-2 Cache.
the Amd Athlon 1000MHz cpu only has a 200MHz fsb, as does this duron, so in this case there isn't a difference in the fsb.
from the 1.3GHz athlon's (i think), up to the athlon 2400+, the fsb is 266MHz.
from the 2500+ upwards, currently the fsb is 333MHz

[h1]

true the new barton athlons own

[amphoteric88]

the thoroughbred B core is still a very good cpu
the 2700+ Thoroughbred B beats the 2500+ Barton, for example

[Switeck]

Originally posted by amphoteric88@3 May 2003 - 19:05
the Amd Athlon 1000MHz cpu only has a 200MHz fsb, as does this duron, so in this case there isn't a difference in the fsb.
I happen to have a AMD 1 Ghz Athlon cpu in this system which has a 266 Mhz fsb.

[amphoteric88]

Originally posted by Switeck@4 May 2003 - 02:36
I happen to have a AMD 1 Ghz Athlon cpu in this system which has a 266 Mhz fsb.
yep, you're right
it seems that athlon 1000MHz cpu's can come in both 200 and 266MHz fsb's :">
sorry

[Xanex]

The origenal athlons came in 4 fruity flavours. 700 750 800 and 900mhz

Then came the model 4 athlon the 1st athlon thunderbird the 1000mhz (1.0 - 1.2ghz) chip with the 200mhz fsb, then we have the model 5 t-bird (1.0 - 1.4ghz)

correct me if im wrong.

thing is i have the 1.0ghz chip 200fsb, i used wcpuid to check stuf and it says i have the model 4 chip but it dont say if its a thunderbird or not.

[h1]

@amphoteric88

that is also true - a thouroughbred core is also good, but the difference you mention with the 2700+ is mainly due to the clock speed.

if you had a thouroughbred and a barton at 2700+, i'm pretty sure that the barton chip would come out faster.

@xanex

yeah u got a thunderbird chip