[RESOLVED] Whats your take on the Durons?

[Llanelli]

Morning All,

Thought I would start a thread seeing what the general tech feeling on the Duron is. I personally have been impressed with their speed and reliability(this coming from an Intel DIE-HARD). Although they tend to get a little overheated, you can get an 800MHZ CPU for around $100. Unbelievable!

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[Paul Cunningham]

Well, I've got a 700Mhz one and haven't considered getting an athlon yet.

Nuff said

[Imagenatas]

I know the feeling dude. I've been an Intel guy since the Pentium days but, everytime I read anything about benchmarking and testing between Celerons and Durons it shows me the Duron kicks the the Celeron's *ss. I don't know. I haven't broken down yet but, I'm leaning towards it everyday I look at my P2 400 and my wallet. As much as I've loved Intel over the last few years. It looks like AMD has the upperhand on the testing and word of mouth. Time to build another machine and find out!

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[CREEPINGDEATH]

Fast ,Cheap ,and bang for your buck what more can you ask for?

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[LORE]

Not for the gammer, but I am all the way AMD, They put more money into development and lowering end user prices, instead of paying blue guys to do dumb stuff. The Duron is The best bang for your buck!!!

[Darren Wilson]

I won't touch them for reasons posted previously on the Forums, same with the Athlons.

The main reason is that the Motherboards are still not reliable enough for me. Until AMD and the chipset manufacturers come up with a combination that is as stable as the Intel combinations, I will stick to selling Intel based systems only. Also had a very high failure rate compared to the quantities sold in comparison wiht Intel CPU's.

One man's opinions and it works for me.

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[Sowulo]

I'm with Darren...

[jimmr13]

I have built a couple and I have had no complants! But My personal every day system has a PIII 1Gig. But next month it will be a PIV 1.5 Gb.


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[Larommi]

I see another thread turned into an AMD vs. Intel again...how fun!!

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[NPaladin]

Originally posted by Darren Wilson:
I won't touch them for reasons posted previously on the Forums, same with the Athlons.

The main reason is that the Motherboards are still not reliable enough for me. Until AMD and the chipset manufacturers come up with a combination that is as stable as the Intel combinations, I will stick to selling Intel based systems only. Also had a very high failure rate compared to the quantities sold in comparison wiht Intel CPU's.

I don't know what to tell you, but between Athlons and Durons, I've built about 100 thunderbird-based systems. I've NEVER had a low-quality problem with the processors. THe boards, yeah, but only because my boss at the time lived by FIC motherboards. I personally use Microstar and Asus, and they're great (The Microstar Athlon boards are the absolute most stable around, actually)

I implore you to check these components out (and make sure you have proper cooling on your CPU) and then reconsider your opinion.

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Bryan Pizzuti
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[NPaladin]

Originally posted by Larommi:
I see another thread turned into an AMD vs. Intel again...how fun!!

At least is isn't as childish as the Bush-Gore thing....yet.


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Bryan Pizzuti
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[pm4345]

AMD Duron is the equivalent of an Intel Celeron. It would not be fair to compare it against a P3 or anything. Keeping that in mind, Duron is the superior choice.

More Speed, More Value

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Say what?

[3fingersalute]

I have to admit, I haven't ever even seen a Duron and to date we've only sold 4 Athlons.

We might not be giving them a fair try, but we had so many headaches with the K6-2 line, that we just quit selling AMD at all, unless a customer comes specifically requesting them.

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[pga]

Originally posted by 3fingersalute:
I have to admit, I haven't ever even seen a Duron and to date we've only sold 4 Athlons.

We might not be giving them a fair try, but we had so many headaches with the K6-2 line, that we just quit selling AMD at all, unless a customer comes specifically requesting them.

ditto....

[TrackMan]

you can compare the duron and PIII, however, because in some things, like mpeg4 creation, the duron will actually beat a pIII of equal or higher clock speed. I saw an article about it somewhere on tom's hardware.

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