[Tfug] AMD Duron Or Thunderbird
Bowie J. Poag
tfug@tfug.org
Thu Jul 25 02:54:01 2002
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Hi Doug,
Alot of people hate AMD (Hi Bri. :) ) ... Other people (like me) swear by them.
I've owned both the T-Bird and Duron. The Duron is a good chip to go with if raw computing horsepower isn't really called for. Keep in mind that for the majority of your machine's life, its waiting for _you_, not the other way around. Going with a TBird versus a Duron in this sort of environment just means you'll have a system thats much faster at waiting. :)
Unless youre into gaming, rendering or any other CPU-intensive sport, stick with the Duron. People will throw yakety-yack benchmarks at you left and right, but the bottom line is, you could replace their Folger's crystals with a same-speed Duron and 99% of them cant taste the difference. Besides that, there are a bazillion other things that you can do to improve performance before whining about design specs. Hi Harry, fire away. In most cases, a properly tuned system running with a Duron under the hood meets or exceeds an average (untuned) TBird box.
Cheers,
Bowie
Hi Guys and Gals,
Im looking to upgrade my CPU from 700 to 1300 and I found out that the A7V can hold up too a 1400 with a 200FSB. My question is would it be better to go with the Duron 1300 or a Thunderbird 1300? I don't know the difference between the two, (like cache wise) so your help would be appreciated. Thanks -
Doug
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Doug,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alot of people hate AMD (Hi Bri. :) ) ... Other
people (like me) swear by them.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've owned both the T-Bird and Duron. The Duron is
a good chip to go with if raw computing horsepower isn't really called for. Keep
in mind that for the majority of your machine's life, its waiting for _you_, not
the other way around. Going with a TBird versus a Duron in this sort of
environment just means you'll have a system thats much faster at waiting.
:)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Unless youre into gaming, rendering or any
other CPU-intensive sport, stick with the Duron. People will throw
yakety-yack benchmarks at you left and right, but the bottom line is, you could
replace their Folger's crystals with a same-speed Duron and 99% of
them cant taste the difference. Besides that, there are a bazillion other
things that you can do to improve performance before whining about design
specs. Hi Harry, fire away. In most cases, a properly tuned system running with
a Duron under the hood meets or exceeds an average (untuned) TBird box.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bowie</FONT></DIV>
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<P>Hi Guys and Gals,</P>
<P> Im looking to upgrade my CPU from 700 to 1300 and I
found out that the A7V can hold up too a 1400 with a 200FSB. My question is
would it be better to go with the Duron 1300 or a Thunderbird 1300? I don't
know the difference between the two, (like cache wise) so your help would
be appreciated. Thanks - </P>
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Doug</P>
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