Compatibility issues between Duron and Win2k?

[CWRMadcat]

Well, after frying my 1.2 ghz athlon 🙁, I've been pretty much forced to settle with a 750 duron as a replacement. My question is this: Are there problems with Durons (or AMD's in general) with win2k?

 

[Zach]

No. Why would there be?

It's the chipsets that cause problems.

 

[adams]

I am running a Duron on Win2K right now. No problems 🙂

 

[mackstann]

me + duron + win2k = fun and no prob's

 

[Elledan]

The Duron is nearly the same as the TBird (same core, smaller L2 cache for the Duron), but like pointed out earlier, it's the chipset of the mobo which is more likely to become the culprit of an unstable system. Since you used the same board for the TBird, you'll have no problems.

 

[mackstann]

TB and Duron have the same core???? Uhhhh...Either I'm a dumbass, or, um, well, you're a dumbass!:Q

 

[Shudder]

Basically he's right. The Duron's got the 64k, Tbird 256k cache.

There may be less transistors on the Duron, but that would only be transistors used to handle cache.

For all intents and purposes though, they're essentially the same chip 🙂

 

[ValkyrieKT7]

Well just download the amd agp registry patch and run it if you haven't done so already. Also make sure service pack 2 is installed as well as the VIA 4.31

 

[ValkyrieKT7]

Well just download the amd agp registry patch and run it if you haven't done so already. Also make sure service pack 2 is installed as well as the VIA 4.31

 

[kylef]

I think when Elledan says "same core" he means same IP transistor layout, not same process technology. Just because one has an FSB of 200 and the other 266 doesn't mean that the internals of the chip are different. Obviously dropping 192 kb of cache will reduce the transistor count substantially but it doesn't change the execution units!