Duron or Athlon Classic?

[joeryu]

would i be better off keeping a 700 athlon classic on a fic sd-11 or getting a duron 700 on a kt133? what speed duron would i need to get around the same performance of the athlon classics?

 

[LukFilm]

800MHz. Though you probably won't notice a difference, anyway.

 

[Sugadaddy]

A duron is about 5% slower than a Classic Athlon at the same clock speed, so that would be a downgrade. If you do upgrade, go for a T-Bird, they're so cheap now...

 

[Shooters]

I thought a Duron would be faster than an Athlon "classic" since it has on die L2 cache.

 

[Sugadaddy]

<< I thought a Duron would be faster than an Athlon &quot;classic&quot; since it has on die L2 cache. >>



no, at the same clock speed, it goes like this (approximately):

T-Bird
(-5%)
Athlon Classic
(-5%)
Duron

 

[LukFilm]

It doesn't really matter as there would be no noticable difference.

 

[mchammer187]

any reason for the duron since a 1.4 Ghz Tbird +ESC K75A+ 512 DDR is ~= $220? kt133 is a dead platform and IMO any upgrades should be to DDR simply because is as cheap as SDRAM and new memory would only cost 80.