how fast is the classic athlon?

[kxy]

I posted this on CPU forum also, but not getting any answers...

how fast is the classic athlon as compare to the nowadays cpu? I am about to aquire a classic athlon 700mhz with 512k cache with Microstart 6167 mobo (irongate chipset). Right now I am having a celery 667, would it be a big performance boost?

 

[ozziegn]

this might be a dumb question but why would you consider a classic Athlon? when you could buy a 1 Ghz T-Bird for $85 or so.... then you could buy a really nice motherboard like the Iwill KK266 for like $107. believe me, you'd much be better off going the Thunderbird route as cheap as prices are right now...

 

[Athlon4all]

Maybe slightly, but the Classic Athlon never performed close to Coppermine Pentium III's or Thunderbirds, and yeah ozzie's right, why even get a Classic Athlon?

 

[kxy]

Well, I dont know much about classic athlon 700. I dont know much bout athlons, being using intel forever. But the seller told me that it is almost as the same speed as a early PIII running at 700, and he is asking for 110 for athlon700 and msi 6167. You think i am better off paying a few more and go for the Thunderbird route?

 

[ozziegn]

kxy

do yourself a huge favor and go to www.pricewatch.com - look at the cpu/motherboard combo section. i just saw a 1 Ghz cpu/motherboard combo for $145. thats only $35 over what you're willing to buy something "used" when you could have something "new" and with alot more power.

 

[Sukhoi]

AFAIk the classic Athlons weren't as fast as similar clocked Coppermines...though I think they were pretty close to Katami's (sp?).

Do you have the money to get a good TBird and mobo?

 

[Sukhoi]

Oh, what do you use your computer for? You should see somewhat of an improvement in Windows and such because of the 50% higher FSB on the classic Athlon.

 

[Athlon4all]

Yeah Classic Athlon did perform better than Katmai PIII's but it had no Chance vs. Coppermine.

 

[merlocka]

For that cash get a KT133A board and a duron.

 

[kxy]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys, I do a lot of heavy graphics editing and stream encoding during work and I do have a nice working machine at work. But I am hoping to get one for my home so I can slack off during work. Right now, I dont have much money, and I dont think I need an upgrade that bad. See I was thinking a quick fix utill I get more $$ later. But now from what you guys said, I think I will just wait for a couple month when the price of the dual board went down.

 

[ozziegn]

Heheheheh.... dual AMD board? better shell out alot more money. them things are like $500 or so. i'd love to have one.

 

[Sukhoi]

If you're doing a lot of graphics editing and such I'd suggest waiting and getting a PC2100 DDR board, that should give you much better performance. DDR RAM is real cheap now too.

 

[TravisBickle]

in some benchmarks SOMEwhere the PIII EB did a couple more fps in QIII.
you are talking out your ass and insulting a processor that made big waves, boyz. the Athlon was always kicking the PIII ass.
slot A should be considered as fast as Duron. at highest speeds where the cache divisor was a big 1/3 anyway. better at 700 with 1/2.
guess the dealer is a retard. spend more than 5 minutes looking around for benches and you'd know different. I am not going to argue with you, it's all there to see....