[RESOLVED] Duron vs. Thunderbird

[Dave Hendricks]

I'm slapping together a new PC, and not sure whether I should use the Duron or the Thunderbird. It'll be running Win 2k professional, and as far as I've heard, the difference is similar to the comparison between the Celeron and PIII. Would I get that much more out of a Thunderbird? And I prefer Abit before anything else, do they have a decent board that supports either chip?

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-Hendricks
"Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time."

[Darren Wilson]

Go for the Abit KT7A-RAID & a T-Bird 1ghz. The extra cache will help under an NT based operating system. If you r going to be running win2k, don't install the via service pack supplied with the mobo, but install the 4.24 version and the ms ata100 patch Email me for the parch if you cannot find it on the net.

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[Dave Hendricks]

Cripes all friday, that's an expensive board. Well, one gets what one pays for, I suppose.

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-Hendricks
"Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time."

[lycia69]

That basically will answer your question. What you are willing to spend will determine what you buy. You want good and cheap go for Duron, money no object go Thunderbird.

[remerson]

The only differance between the T-bird and the duron is the cashe. From the benchmarking I've seen that extra 128K level 2 cashe is worth about 50 MHz depending on what your doing. So, a Duron 850 will preform like a T-Bird 800 in most test.

Whatever you chose for a CPU, go with one of the Abit or Asus boards.

[weazel]

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[Darren Wilson]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by remerson:
The only differance between the T-bird and the duron is the cashe. From the benchmarking I've seen that extra 128K level 2 cashe is worth about 50 MHz depending on what your doing. So, a Duron 850 will preform like a T-Bird 800 in most test.

Whatever you chose for a CPU, go with one of the Abit or Asus boards.</font>

I was under the assumption from AMD that
the T-Bird has 128Kb L1 Cache and 256Kb L2, whilst the Duron has 128Kb L1 and 64Kb L2.

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