Duron 1300 or Athlon 1100

[VeryVeryColdPerson]

I am looking to upgrade an old Abit KT7 with 600 MHz Duron to either a 1.3GHz Duron or 1.1GHz Athlon. Both processors are the same price and I dont want to spend much to upgrade. It is a secondary sytem that will be used for basic tasks (Internet, word processing, occassional gaming and a little bit of programming). Which processor would be a better for what I need?

Thanks

 

[Soulkeeper]

i would definately rather have the athlon if i had to choose between those two
the extra cache is worth the decrease in clock speed

what would be even better tho is an Athlon xp 17 or 1800+

 

[dannybin1742]

the duron 1.3 will have sse enabled, the 1.1 will not

 

[CraigRT]

the 1.3 Morgan core Duron will definitely have the edge against the old school 1.1 Athlon (I would think)

 

[RockyMaivia]

I'm facing this same decision right now. Does anybody know of a test that pitted these two processors against each other?

 

[DieHardware]

Did you try overclocking your 600 MHz Duron? A lot of them would do 900MHz+.

 

[RockyMaivia]

This sight below may have some info, but it looks like you need a membership. If I had enough money for a membership, I wouldn't have to buy one of these old @ss processors.

www.cpuscorecard.com

 

[AkumaX]

try to get a 1.4ghz tbird 200mhz fsb, best bang for buck i guess

 

[MrC4]

I have a 1.2 Gig TBird, and it is about 15% faster in 3dmark vs. my 1.3 Gig Duron.

Go with the TBird!

 

[deadkenny]

I get better results from the Duron! I run my Duron at 133MHz FSB though, which is kinda tough to unlock if the pencil trick doesn't work. You have to cut the closed L10 Bride and you have to close the open L10 Bridge (there are two L10 Bridges).
My Duron 1300 runs perfectly stable at 1466 MHz (11x133) with default voltage. I guess the all go that high now!

 

[rogue1979]

Originally posted by: MrC4
I have a 1.2 Gig TBird, and it is about 15% faster in 3dmark vs. my 1.3 Gig Duron.

Go with the TBird!

I'll bet the 1.2GHz T-bird is a 133MHz cpu and the Duron was running on 100.

The old school thunderbird has 256k L2 cache.

The Duron (Morgan) has SSE and data prefetch.

I have done extensive benchtesting, and my results match the benchmarks floating around out there. Clock for clock, if they are running at the same fsb speeds, they are almost dead even across the board in all types of benchmarks. I know everyone wants to assume the 256k L2 cache of a thunderbird automatically makes it superior to a Morgan with only 64k. The new Duron is an XP core with less L2 cache and benefits from the same core improvements.

 

[Jeff7181]

I vote somethin else... get an Athlon XP1600... less than $60... You'll pay $30-40 for either of those you mentioned at best... why not spend another $30 and get something fairly current?

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
I vote somethin else... get an Athlon XP1600... less than $60... You'll pay $30-40 for either of those you mentioned at best... why not spend another $30 and get something fairly current?

he's got a kt7, no xp there (or 133mhz fsb) that's why i said 1.4ghz tbird (100mhz)

best bang for buck is duron 1.3 though (sse, prefetch)

 

[rogue1979]

Remember, the Duron 1.3GHz is just like the XP as far as older motherboard compatibility. I got the 1.2 Duron (Morgan) working on an Abit KT7 with the 7N bios.

 

[deadkenny]

I can assure you that the Duron will work in KT7A Motherboards. Dunno about the KT7 though! If you have some extra money get an NForce Board, two good sticks of DDR Ram (at least 256MB) and if you want to go cheap first a Duron 1.3 and later on when they got cheaper an T-Bred Athlon XP

 

[holdencommodore]

I reckon it'll be pretty much line ball between the two, with the Duron coming ahead with SSE enabled apps. I have a Duron 1200 running at 1333 on a 111MHz FSB.... in Sisoft Sandra CPU benches, it whips past the TBird 1200, and comes awful close to the Athlon XP 1600+. Even without overclocking, it almost matched the TBird 1200.

Cheers

 

[topaz22]

there will be very little difference, so i'd go with the duron

 

[RockyMaivia]

I decided to go with a Duron 1.3ghz. It was close, but I had to go with a Duron because I still have 2 Duron case stickers left.