Any reason why you would buy a Duron 850?

[Dynamix3D]

I was checking out sharky's cpu price guide, and the Duron 850 is $108 as opposed to the 850 Thunderbird which is $106. Now why would anyone buy a Duron over a Tbird if they are in the same price range?

 

[jsbush]

The duron 850 just came out, give it some time and the price will go down. It's the same with Intel and there Celeron 800.

 

[Zephyr]

Because the Duron has lower PSU requirements that the Tbird

 

[Dynamix3D]

Zephyr: Who cares! I am sure a 850 Tbird will run on most power supply's 250W and above regardless if the are AMD Recommended or not.

 

[RichieZ]

I guess you would buy it if you were dumb.

And incidently the Celeron 800 sucks, everyone knows its just a 533A that intel finally moved to 100FSB, we've had that for a long time.

Damn I'll do anything rather than read more of this spanish crap story for my spanish 5AP final.

 

[GaryTcs]

Durons are a little more likely to oc. That wouldn't make me buy, but for some it might.

 

[Zephyr]

<< Zephyr: Who cares! I am sure a 850 Tbird will run on most power supply's 250W and above regardless if the are AMD Recommended or not. >>



I care!!! If a customer asks me for an upgrade that'll run on his (POS) 235W PSU I'll go duron instead of a Tbird wich might or might not run on this PSU. Unless the customer is willing to risk that he might need a new PSU. Plain and simple!

 

[bupkus]

Question:
What applications does the extra cache on the TBird best service?
There's gotta be someone out there who really doesn't need a Thunderbird over the Duron, clock for clock.

Note, it's a purely academic question. I'm sure it was solely an economic one for AMD, but I'm curious what more cache does and for whom.

 

[sandorski]

Is AMD still producing 850 Tbirds? Wouldn't surprise me if they soon dropped the 850 Bird or if they haven't already.