T-bird 750 or Duron 800?

[Tyrant222]

Im building a new system and wanna hit 1ghz for sure so im undecided as to which one of these will give me the better chance @ a gig. There about the same price and what i wanna spend so plz dont say i should get something else. Im pretty sure the duron will do it as the 700 i have works fine up to 927Mhz.
Thanks for the suggestions, will be making purchase at the cheapest online vender i can find (thank the gods for pricewatch).

 

[Hawk]

The Tbird will be faster than the Duron no matter what. What speed you will hit depends on lots of things, but just get the Tbird.

 

[Dan]

Tyrant222: If you're only looking to hit 1GHz for the sake of hitting 1GHz then go for the Duron. From the few Durons and T-Birds I've overclocked, I've found that the former are better overclockers.

On the other hand, if you want the better processor, go for the T-Bird. (Who knows, you may hit 1GHz with it and have the best of both worlds!)

 

[enginjon]

If you are truly set on hitting the 1 gig mark, I'd go for the duron, but I'd take a Thunderbird 750@850 and up over a duron@1000

 

[Nitzylpick]

IMHO you should get the duron and put the money saved into a better video card. But then I'm assuming you're interested in games. If that's not the case then get the athlon. You'll see more benefit from a better video card than a slightly faster cpu.

Price/performance wise the duron wins easily.