Morgan-based Durons: Which ones and what's better than original durons?

[tdawg]

Hello All,

I will soon be upgrading my parents computer and am curious which Duron's are based on the Morgan core? Also, what's different between the Morgan-based durons and the previous durons? Is it just clock speed, or do the morgan's have new technology similar to the Athlon XP's? Will I notice big performance differences between the original durons and the new morgan-based durons?

I haven't dealt with durons and I don't keep up with their technology. Normally, I would go for an Athlon XP, but cost is an issue and they don't need that kind of power. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

~tdawg

 

[Priit]

Morgan-based durons are all durons starting from 1Ghz (last spitfire was duron 950). Morgan has all the new features (SSE, data prefech, on-die thermal diode, little lower power consumption etc.) of athlonXP (only difference is duron's 64kb L2 and 200Mhz FSB as always).

 

[Duvie]

Priit pretty much sumed it all up....still a good chip though the l2 cache is downsized from the xp's

theoretically since the xp's were noticing 10-15 percent in most applications the duron should be a 10-15 percent advantage over the same speed spitfire...

Couple a duron morgan core with a good integrated board and you have a cheap fast solution....

 

[kAlla]

Can you unlock a morgan with the pencil trick?

 

[Duvie]

I believe it comes in the same xp packaging, meaing most likely it will require the fill and bridge method of the athlon xp's...

 

[tdawg]

what's the best integrated motherboard to pair with the duron?

thanks for all the previous help.

~tdawg

 

[Duvie]

Well the best integrated mobos are nforce mobos due to there gf2mx onboard video and 5.1 sound...However that makes them expensive and almost takes the savings away from a more budget duron system...

I now there are many good intergrated mobos...you want to sticvk to the km133a boards as they have superior onboard video cards...

i recommend going to www.tcwo.com and look at the biostar or microstar boards...Also they sell the durons but order over the phone and ask for the p[ricewatch duron price as it is often 10 bucks cheaper then the online price. I bet you will be hardpress to find a much beetre deal in terms of shipping and price on the net...and from a extremely reputable dealer...

 

[Priit]

AFAIK morgan-durons are using the old packaging and are as easy to unlock as spitfires...

 

[Spikesoldier]

The new 1.3's are "un pencil trick able".

 

[kAlla]

The reason I ask is because I recently purchased a 1ghz oem duron from newegg. I tried the pencil trick on it and it didn't seem to work, so I thought I did something wrong.
I did notice that the bridge were like this, not like this.
Is there any way I can tell if I have AFAIK core without having to remove the heatsink?

 

[Duvie]

The difference is ofcourse the newer xp's and I still believe morgan core durons have the laser cut bridges but also a valley or hole that goes slightly deeper. To get it to work requires filling in the valley with a non-conductive material and then applying with a defogger kit close the bridge...be clean and make sure non are touching each other.


It appears to me there is a slight discolored area running perpendicular to the bridges. I think thank is the slight gauge or valley I am talking about.

hope this helps....

 

[Damascus]

<< what's the best integrated motherboard to pair with the duron? >>



The VIA bashers would say the ECS K7S5A or whatever that blasted thing is called.
It has LAN and sound built in.

 

[VirginiaDonkey]

the 1ghz-1.2ghz Morgan Durons are cut exactly like the spitfire durons. I have one, I know.

I used rear window defogger kit to close my L1`s. it was harder than the spitfire durons because there are 5 bridges now instead of 4 and they seem closer together, they may not be, just seemed that way.

my morgan duron runs at 1.2ghz and is happy to do so!