New Duron owners...happy?

[kamaboko]

Hello,

Thinking about setting up a Duron box with Win2K/pro. How's your system? Any problems? How about your sys specs? I'd like to know who's using what.

Thanks in advance,
Kamaboko

 

[Cypher]

Go for it! My Duron is up and running at 990 Mhz (1Gig is only about 95% stable) and for an inexpensive CPU a bargain! Performance is BETTER than an Athlon Classic at the same speed in all tests. (Remember @800 the Classic's cache went to 2/5 and then @900 down again to 1/3, so the Duron is quicker). This is possible the most stable machine I've owned in years. I already have a spare CPU coming to upgrade to Dual Processor SMP when the boards ship later this year.

Ray


System Specs: (As requested)

Abit KT7 Motherboard
Duron Processory (Unlocked via 'Pencil' mod) @990Mhz (110x9)
256M Micron PC133 (Set to TURBO Mode)
Elsa Gladiac 32M
SB Live! Value
Tekram 390U2W SCSI w/18.2 WD Enterprise 10k RPM
Sony CDRW (SCSI)
Acer DVD (EIDE)
Zip (EIDE)
Onstream Tape B/U (SCSI)
Antec 300W P/S in an InWin Full-Tower

 

[kamaboko]

Rockin!

Thanks

 

[Ausm]

Is this a cross thread?


Ausm

 

[StanFL]

Unlocked Duron 600 on Abit KT7 (non RAID version). Currently running the Duron at 800, 1.75 volts, full load on cpu, temp is 49C.

This thing is every bit as stable (if not more so) than the BX mobo and Celly II it replaced.

rest of system

(2) 128 sticks of generic PC100
(2) 13.6 gig Maxtor 7200 rpm's
Promise Ultra 66 controller
Viper 770 TNT2 Ultra
Sound Blaster Live Value
Kenwood 72X CD
HP 8100i burner
Cordless Logitech keyboard/mouse
Linksys 10/100 nic

Cracking DCypher.net Gamma Flux Client:

Old Celeron at 850 - averaged 18,500 rays/s
New Duron at 800 - average 23,500 rays/s