Poll: which duron to buy??? suggestions please

[SammyBoy]

Hi,

okay, I am going to buy a pretty nice mobo for my new computer that I will be building in the next couple of weeks but I think I will only shell out for a cheap duron and upgrade the cpu in a couple of months.
I think I will buy from upgradeplanet...they have a pretty good price and rating,

okay,
so which duron would u suggest buying, i would like to overclock but dont want to screw any of my pci components or anything, and will see if I can run my chip at 133fsb.

so here are the chips and the prices, what would you guys recomend???

Duron 700-OEM $46
Duron 750-OEM $56
Duron 800-OEM $68
Duron 850-OEM $89 (pricey!)

i guess I may also go for a T-Bird 750 or so for $78

what do you guys think.

I want value/performance and overclockability (average) I hope I dont get a dud chip.


thanks a lot guys

 

[Biggs]

Somebody posted this link, I forgot who.

 

[hclarkjr]

if you plan on overclocking i would contact compuwiz1 here in the forums, he always has good deals on unlocked durons. tell him i sent you do search for his name and you will see lots of posts by him in the for sale forum

 

[twong82]

go for the tbird

 

[SammyBoy]

any other suggestions?

 

[Fingers]

Get the 700, in general the durons will overclock to about the same speed, so go with the cheapest. if not overclocking get hte fastest that you feel comfertable spending money one

 

[heng1028]

i would recommend 800

 

[Dan]

I agree with Fingers: get the Duron 700. Put the money you save into a decent HSF and you should be able to hit 1GHz.

 

[sadb0i]

get a 750 and a decent mobo and HSF...youll be able to it 1.0 easily...

 

[SammyBoy]

is the new volcanoII heatsink good enough? I was gonna go with an alpha or fop-32 or something but I heard someone praise the volcano and it is like 12 bucks and it has almost as much airflow as a fop-38! but not so loud.

what do you guys think

 

[CichliSuite]

LuciferHAze,
That statement is really uncalled for. Some people may find $89 too much to pay, while being far from welfare dependant. And when you consider that a 700 will hit 1ghz quite easily and that newer 266fsb Athlons are already out and shifting the durons down the obsoletion ladder, paying double the money for a marginally better Duron may not only by too expensive, but a simply _stupid_ choice as well.

So chill out, ok?

 

[LuNoTiCK]

I would just go for a T-bird 750, and try to overclock it as much as possible. Lots of people get 1100 with that.

 

[Super6]

The 700 is an easy 933 on any decent MB and it may allow you to avoid the boot problems some are experiencing on MB's with the 100/133 jumper. And it's cheap. Saw a benchmark suite running a Duron 933 vs a PIII-933 and it smoked the P3 in all tests and only lost out by about 40 points in 3DMark2000. I put one in an Iwill KK266 for someone...she's happy. I'm sure 1 GHZ was possible but as I'm in N. Cal. and she's in LA, I didn't feel like supporting a twitchy system long distance.

Super6

 

[hclarkjr]

buy a thunderbird!!! i just installed a thunderbird 800 in my system replacing a duron 600, man what a performance increase you get. on my motherboard there are certain things disabled because of a duron being installed but not with a thunderbird. it is well worth the extra few $$ to get thunderbird.

 

[Kp99]

Duron 700 all the way with a real good heatsink!!!

 

[yodayoda]

get the 600! there's classics and go all the way to 1 ghz. get one of fleabay for like $20 and smoke the sh*t out of it. but that is just me =)

 

[wesmaster]

Go for Duron850. it so easy to hit above a GHz (Vcore 1.75)
I heard someone hit for 1150MHz rock stable.
Buy a KT133A Mainboard, you can go for the 266MHz FSB(133MHz)Thunderbird later.


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