Athlon vs. Duron?

[flashbacck]

Can someone point me to a CPU benchmark review that has the Athlon vs. Duron? I'm considering one or the other and I wanna know if the extra Athlon cost is justified.

thanks.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q1/020121/duron1300-05.html
depends on what you do. the xp's whoop the 1300 in everything pretty much.

 

[KevinMU1]

As always, it depends. For games, yes, the cost is probably justified.

I just upgraded from a K6-III 450 mhz to an Athlon XP 1700+. I don't notice any difference in everyday apps. The only differences I have seen have been in games and A/V encoding.

Makes me wonder why I upgraded, since I do those latter activities pretty rarely.

AFAIK, the differences tend to be minimal except in certain apps. Last thing to consider is that Durons only come in much lower clock speeds.

 

[flashbacck]

<< http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q1/020121/duron1300-05.html
depends on what you do. the xp's whoop the 1300 in everything pretty much. >>



ugh, I hate tomshardware . They're so exorbitantly anti-intel I don't trust their reviews anymore. thanks for the link though.

 

[Daovonnaex]

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<< http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q1/020121/duron1300-05.html
depends on what you do. the xp's whoop the 1300 in everything pretty much. >>



ugh, I hate tomshardware . They're so exorbitantly anti-intel I don't trust their reviews anymore. thanks for the link though. >>

They just had a P4 overclock project.

 

[KevinMU1]

Altenatively, you could try this from anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1574 . He tends to be AMD-biased, but I don't think it's quite to the level of Tom's Hardware.

Hope that helps.

 

[Athlon4all]

The one thing that article doesn't take ionto account is that if you "overclock" the Duron to 266fsb, then it is much closer to the Athlon levels (Like 3% within Athlon levels). If you're on a budget, then don't hesitate to get the Duron but if there's a T-Bird or Athlon XP that is close to the Duron's price, I would take it.

 

[avedis]

I wouldn't say Toms is anti-intel, or even anti-AMD, he's just anti-whatever_is_not_trendy_to_him_this_week