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Stray Dog Joined: 19 Mar 2001 Posts: 9 Location: USA

I need some help on deciding on which CPU to buy, an Athlon or a Duron. What's the best for the $$$. I know that the Athlon's L1 and L2 cache are twice as much as a Duron, but what is that going to mean? Thanks.

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Butt Sniffer Joined: 24 Oct 2000 Posts: 1545 Location: USA

THIS IS JUST A GUESS BUT I WOULD IMAGINE THAT IF YOU RUN MULTIPLE PROGIES AT THE SAME TIME YOU WILL SEE A DIFFERENCE.. KINNA LIKE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE CELERON AND THE P2/P3
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2001 3:51 pm Post subject:

Artstar is right on the money, Except that Duron spanks celerys ass untill its numb.
if your looking for price/performance ratio go Duron
if not and have the money get a 1Ghz Tbird w/ 266 FSB
that mi advice
-g

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2001 10:48 am Post subject:

For a bit of a comparison, my Duron 600@900 and my T-Bird 650@800 perform nearly identically. The extra 100Mhz for the Duron make it nearly equal to the T-Bird(Although cache intensive apps like SETI are still a wee bit faster on the T-Bird). In 3D-Mark 2000(I know 2001 is out, but it does nothing but crash for me) the T-bird 800 and Duron 900 are consistently within 50 points of each other. The same goes for the Sisoft benchmarks.

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Butt Sniffer Joined: 24 Oct 2000 Posts: 1545 Location: USA

Try having a couple of browsers open, an animation progie, notepad, word, netscapes composer (or some other web page creator), and play a game all at the same time with a Duron and then with a T-bird... [ Sticking out Tongue

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