AMD 1.33 GHz 266 FSB or 1.2 GHz 266 FSB?

[DietDrThunder]

Is there a big enough performance difference between the two to justify buying the 1.33 at $95 more?

 

[Kishkumen]

I would guess the performance difference is in the 5-10% range. IMHO $95 is not worth that, but it's all relative to your particular religious, political and/or sexual persuasion.

Later,
Kishkumen

 

[DoubleL]

Well if their was a HSF for $125 that said it would give you 10% guaranteed most people would buy it

 

[jaykay]

I recently (last week) got a 1.2 GHZ 266 FSB (retail) processor from Newegg. It's an AXIA chip and am able to overclock it easily to 1.4 GHZ with the retail stock fan that came with the processor. The temperature was around 56 degrees C. Ordered a new SOCKET-AHO with YS-Tech fan from 3dfxcool.com yesterday and am hoping to keep the temperature cool.

The bottomline is either get an 1GHZ AXIA or 1.2GHZ AXIA and don't overpay for 1.33GHZ right now.

Just my 2 cents...

 

[Kishkumen]

Hey thanks for the advice JayKay, I'm actually trying to figure out what CPU to get myself, so I think I may take your advice since 1.2GHz AXIAs can be found around where I live for pretty cheap, but everyone else seems to be out of 1.33GHz anyway.

Also, ya I agree that a fan for $125 that guaranteed you 10% would be bought like crazy. I may even be guilty of doing that myself sometime in my sordid past. Maybe better advice would be the 1.2 is cheap enough right now that if it doesn't overclock as fast as you want, it will still be fast enough to carry you through until the Desktop Athlon4/Pro/Whatever comes out or something better comes along.

 

[gogeeta13]

i was in a lot of yor guys position a few days ago. i decided against buying a tbird. instead i bought a nice kk266r and a duron@950 from compuwiz. THat way i can just hold out until palomino and/or cheaper 1.4ghz tbird😀

 

[whitelight]

go for the 1.2ghz and use the money you save to get a good hsf. you can easily overclock your 1.2 to 1.33 and beyond.

 

[Anaconda]

im doing exactly what gogeeta's doing, i cant wait for the Athlon Pro!