Athlon Thunderbird 1000 versus Duron 1000

[Davbaron]

My thunderbird 1000 may be dead and i was looking to see how much a replacement is in the UK. I cannot readily see it for sale and i suspect it has been withdrawn. The motherboard is limited to a 1000 processor ( MSI 6340 ) and so i may have to use a duron 1000.
Does anyone know what the performance hit is between the two, especially on flight sims?
Time for CPU/ motherboard upgrade, is it ?

 

[Super6]

Your bios may not recognize a 1000 Duron as it's built on the new core (Morgan/Palomino). Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

Super6

 

[Wind]

<< Your bios may not recognize a 1000 Duron as it's built on the new core (Morgan/Palomino). Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

Super6 >>

Depend wht PCB rev. he got. I believe PCB ver. 3 & above supports XP/Morgan core.

 

[Wind]

Oh yeah...I favour the 1.0 Ghz Athlon...than the Duron (Morgan core).

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Since your using the 200FSB Athlon, I'd should think the Morgan would provide equitable overall performance as the only advantage the Athlon has is a larger cache, where as the Morgan has data prefetch, SSE, and improve heat and power characteristics which should compensate for it's smaller cache especially in SSE optimized Apps. However, check with MSI to be certain your board supports the Morgan with a bios upgrade.

 

[tomrizzo]

what about trying the forsale sections here or at the hardforum, someone has to be selling a 1Ghz t-bird.

 

[pcmax]

For what it's worth benched some games with both a Tbird 1ghz and Duron 1ghz Morgan core, both 200fsb, in the same system. The Tbird gave about 8-10% faster framerates on average. When I overclocked the Duron to 1.1 ghz it benched almost identical to the Tbird.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

<< Benched some games with both a Tbird 1ghz and Duron 1ghz Morgan core in the same system. The Tbird gave about 8-10% faster framerates on average. When I overclocked the Duron to 1.1 ghz it benched almost identical to the Tbird. >>

was that T-Bird @266FSB???

 

[Lithium381]

Do you use it for gaming or is it for officework and such? If it's just for typing, i'd just go with the duron, it's cheaper.....and you won't notice the difference.....but your board might not see it as others have said....and once again as it has been suggested try the FS/FT forums, lots of stuff floating around over there good luck!

 

[Freshbrain]

You should look for a bios update from MSI, I think your motherboard supports faster CPUs. Maybe you could get a 1.4Mhz Thunderbird 200FSB. No real need to upgrade yet. Flight sims rely more on Video cards. You'll hardly notice the change from 1g tb to 1g duron.