Duron 700 to 1100: worth the upgrade?

[Booster]

In my second PC, which I use quite rarely, the CPU is an old Duron 700. Now that the 1100 is so cheap, I can upgrade almost for free. However, I'm quite lazy to assemble all this. I'd do it only if the performance increase will be noticeable. Any of you guys did anything similar? Of course, I know if I get an Athlon XP 1700-1800+ that are also quite cheap, but not free as a Duron 1100, I'd get a noticeable performance gain for Windows XP, but with a Duron? Is it worth it?

 

[icedogg256]

you would probly receive a 10-20% increase of speed at the most, If you motherboard supports a thunderbird, I'd go with a 1ghz or higher thunderbird. The 1.1ghz duron is $32, the 1.1ghz T-bird is $38. I'd say, if you have the money, get it, you'll be a little faster, or you can always get more fans in the case and overclock the 700mhz. But if your mobo supports the thunderbird, get the thunderbird.

 

[dannybin1742]

not to mension that the 1.0 or 1.1 will have sse enabled, so there will be a noticable difference in speed

 

[Booster]

Originally posted by: iced256
you would prolly receive a 10-20% increase of speed at the most, If you motherboard supports a thunderbird, I'd go with a 1ghz or higher thunderbird. The 1.1ghz duron is $32, the 1.1ghz T-bird is $38. I'd say, if you have the money, get it, you'll be a little faster, or you can always get more fans in the case and overclock the 700mhz. But if your mobo supports the thunderbird, get the thunderbird.

10-20% increase at the most? Heck, it's not worth the trouble then. I think I'll have to get an XP 1700 to see at least any difference. But I thought that 400 more Mhz and better core should be noticeable... The cache is just as small, though.

 

[AbRASiON]

DDR AND a true XP will make about 30+% difference - even a meagre 1800+

I had an ECS k7s5a with Duron 1.0 (@ 1.33) and SDR - it was "ok" but when I got a 256mb DDR chip - took out the SDR and put in an 1800+ wow,... I was amazed at the diff.

Personally I'd stick with what you have and save up for something a bit higher end.

 

[Booster]

Originally posted by: AbRASiON
DDR AND a true XP will make about 30+% difference - even a meagre 1800+

I had an ECS k7s5a with Duron 1.0 (@ 1.33) and SDR - it was "ok" but when I got a 256mb DDR chip - took out the SDR and put in an 1800+ wow,... I was amazed at the diff.

Personally I'd stick with what you have and save up for something a bit higher end.

Thanks for the reply, but it's too late. I just got an XP 1800+ today. Heck, believe it or not, it's the fastest CPU I have ever had a chance to use or even see personally. Prior to this purchase it had been the PIII-750 at work, sure beats my old butt Duron 700. Now the real question is... will my 235W FSP PSU be sufficient for the 1800 assuming I only have one 7200 rpm HD, one CDRW, a couple of extra PCI cards? I'm really afraid of frying my entire system with a much too weak a PSU.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Do you have an ATX or mATX mobo? If it's mATX you should be fine, otherwise the Sparkle FSP300-60ATVS 300watt PSU for $33 shipped from Newegg has served me well in the past even using a 1.4 T-Bird overclocked to 1.54ghz with it.

 

[rogue1979]

I can't say it enough. The old thunderbird core (even with 256k L2 cache) has roughly the same performance of a morgan core (even with only 64k L2 cache).
Frankly, now that the 1600+ is down to $49 at newegg, I would just skip the morgan upgrade.

 

[AbRASiON]

Originally posted by: Booster

Originally posted by: AbRASiON
DDR AND a true XP will make about 30+% difference - even a meagre 1800+

I had an ECS k7s5a with Duron 1.0 (@ 1.33) and SDR - it was "ok" but when I got a 256mb DDR chip - took out the SDR and put in an 1800+ wow,... I was amazed at the diff.

Personally I'd stick with what you have and save up for something a bit higher end.

Thanks for the reply, but it's too late. I just got an XP 1800+ today. Heck, believe it or not, it's the fastest CPU I have ever had a chance to use or even see personally. Prior to this purchase it had been the PIII-750 at work, sure beats my old butt Duron 700. Now the real question is... will my 235W FSP PSU be sufficient for the 1800 assuming I only have one 7200 rpm HD, one CDRW, a couple of extra PCI cards? I'm really afraid of frying my entire system with a much too weak a PSU.

Good luck with it - it should be good for you I hope.
The power supply is PROBABLY fine.... if it's not, you will find out - it shouldn't kill anything, just simply not boot or crash now and then (maybe)