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$58 for a 600mhz processor...who would of thunk it!

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imhotepmp

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This is just amazing to me that Duron is that freaking low. $58!! I look at some places and see pII for twice that price. Big kudos go out to Advanced Micro Devices. AMD is really trying hard to cut into Intels pie. They are taking losses certainly, but in the long run im betting theyll think it pay off. Well sorry to spam the forums with the obvious. But I just thinks this is amazing. 🙂
As someone sig says...IM very proud of my stupid opinion. 🙂

So feel free to slap me if you like.

oh yeah, anyone want to guess how low a duron will go?

imhotepmp
 
I don't think AMD is really taking a hit, they just aren't making as much as the Athlons. Remember when AMD only had K6's, they couldn't charge jack for even their very fastest.
 
Well i really dont know anything mcuh about pre pII era. My first pc was a Gateway pII233 in 97 and even then i didnt build my first computer until a little more than a yr ago. So until the Athlon, AMD was a total mystery to me.

imhotepmp

 
I know, thats really cheap. And then the funny part about it is that right now Iam looking over firingsquads Cerlon 600 vs. Duron 600...and guess who is smoking? 😉
 
okay, done reading it...lol...duron won everyone single benchmark, except 2 1600 1200 test in which they tied. 🙂
 
what kind of performance differance am i going to see between this and my current celly 366? main thing(s) that are bogging down my system now are my hard drives....old ass pieces 'o' crap!! but for 58 bones, i may have to look at an upgrade. what type of chip is the duron? slot 1? a?
 
codeyf, The Duron is the new format released by AMD called Socket A. Very similar to Socket 7 except the pins are different on them to keep people from putting them in a socket 7 mb.

 
codeyf, you would need to change motherboards to change from a celery to a Duron/TBird. The Duron/TBird uses an interface called Socket A, a 463 pin socket.
 
johnny - plus the bus is different, it supports 24 outstanding transactions, while I believe the socket 7 bus supported 2, plus more pins, plus the bus is a DDR bus, plus the bus is point to point, meaning, its AWSOME for SMP systems (far better than the way intel does SMP now, though point to point is QUITE a bit more expensive to implement in SMP situations)....plus others. They aren't even remotely the same, other than the fact that they are in socket form.

Its like saying socket 7 and socket 370 are the same except for the number of pins.
 
dude, that sucks, gonna have to get a new board too.....may just have to pick up one of those IBM deskstars.....should help quite a bit.
 
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