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When are Athlon FX CPUs (new Durons) shipping?

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bigedmustafa

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I have a couple of cheap PCs to put together and I was hoping to catch the new Athlon FXs when they're available. I'd read that they're in mass production right now, but I haven't heard anything about a street date for when they'll actually be available. Can anybody clue me in?
 
Originally posted by: bigedmustafa
I'd rather have a $45 Athlon FX 2400+ that doesn't need to be overclocked...
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If you think they're gonna launch at $45 you're sadly mistaken. Value chip or not.
 
Heh, no way an Athlon FX 2400+ is going to be $45. A duron 1.3Ghz is still $38.

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You friggin' LIAR!
 
This is a power user crowd. We don't use words like "Duron" around here.🙂
I'm afraid I can't provide info on this new processor; this is the first I'm hearing of it.
 
This is a power user crowd. We don't use words like "Duron" around here.
I'm afraid I can't provide info on this new processor; this is the first I'm hearing of it.
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Actually I'm more concerned with performance per dollar... sure Durons are cheap... sure the new "FX" chips are gonna be cheaper than Athlon-64's... but why on earth would you sacrifice 50% performance for $5?
Get XP1700's now... when they become too slow to do the job... OVERCLOCK them... they'll run 2.0 Ghz without much effort. You can even get an old cheap motherboard for $50, and for under $100, you have a CPU/motherboard combo that's better than a lot of people on here use for their gaming rigs.
 
ECS AMD Motherboard (now were talking cheap.) , xp 1700+, hell, thats under $100 easily. I had a duron 800mhz, cause it was given to me. It was crappier then my girlfriends celeron 733. WAY crappier. Durons arent worth the "bargin" imho. I doubt the FX's will be either.
 
Originally posted by: batmizang
ECS AMD Motherboard (now were talking cheap.) , xp 1700+, hell, thats under $100 easily. I had a duron 800mhz, cause it was given to me. It was crappier then my girlfriends celeron 733. WAY crappier. Durons arent worth the "bargin" imho. I doubt the FX's will be either.
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That's odd... Duron's easily ran over Celerons... maybe it had more to do with your rig as a whole... a slow hard drive can make a good computer feel like a piece of junk.
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: batmizang
ECS AMD Motherboard (now were talking cheap.) , xp 1700+, hell, thats under $100 easily. I had a duron 800mhz, cause it was given to me. It was crappier then my girlfriends celeron 733. WAY crappier. Durons arent worth the "bargin" imho. I doubt the FX's will be either.
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That's odd... Duron's easily ran over Celerons... maybe it had more to do with your rig as a whole... a slow hard drive can make a good computer feel like a piece of junk.
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I agree. Durons crush Celerys on performance.
 
If I remember reading the CPU reviews, I thought Durons were just Athlons with 128K of L2 cache instead of 256K of L2 cache. For gaming, L2 cache is fairly unimportant.

Less Cache = Greater yield = Cheaper chip

Were there other architectural differences of any substance between a Duron 1Ghz CPU and an Athlon 1Ghz CPU?
 
Originally posted by: Swanny
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: batmizang ECS AMD Motherboard (now were talking cheap.) , xp 1700+, hell, thats under $100 easily. I had a duron 800mhz, cause it was given to me. It was crappier then my girlfriends celeron 733. WAY crappier. Durons arent worth the "bargin" imho. I doubt the FX's will be either.
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That's odd... Duron's easily ran over Celerons... maybe it had more to do with your rig as a whole... a slow hard drive can make a good computer feel like a piece of junk.
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I agree. Durons crush Celerys on performance.
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Hehe... I remember seeing Durons beat PIII's in benchmarks that cost four times as much
 
Well, i forgot to mention, i had the Duron 800, that had 64k cache. lol. Compared to a regular celeron 733, it was indeed alot slower, cause of the cache of course.
 
Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress
Originally posted by: Swanny
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: batmizang ECS AMD Motherboard (now were talking cheap.) , xp 1700+, hell, thats under $100 easily. I had a duron 800mhz, cause it was given to me. It was crappier then my girlfriends celeron 733. WAY crappier. Durons arent worth the "bargin" imho. I doubt the FX's will be either.
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That's odd... Duron's easily ran over Celerons... maybe it had more to do with your rig as a whole... a slow hard drive can make a good computer feel like a piece of junk.
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I agree. Durons crush Celerys on performance.
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Hehe... I remember seeing Durons beat PIII's in benchmarks that cost four times as much
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Ah, the good old days when AMD "owned" Intel...I really wish they were still as competitive. Be much better for all of us...intel fan or amd fan.

 
Originally posted by: bigedmustafa
I'm taking a lot of abuse here for a guy who just wants to know when the new Durons will ship! 😛
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The Thornton-core CPUs are shipping already, my friend 🙂 They've launched as AthlonXP 2000+, 2200+ and 2400+, and if you order one of these models of AthlonXP from an online retailer, you might get one.

In AMD's nomenclature, these are the Model 10 CPUs that you'll find in Asus's CPU-support list. Whether they'll really be branded AthlonFX remains to be seen. At this point, there are three types of AthlonXP 2000+ (Palomino, Thoroughbred and Thornton), and two types of AthlonXP 2200+ and 2400+ (Thoroughbred and Thornton).
 
Just wondering mechBgon, but how do you know this? Do you happen to know someone who got one? If so, what do they o/c like, etc. Thanks.
 
A couple of people here on the Forums received them. Here's one of them: thread ...and here's the other: thead 2.

Physically, they look like a Barton, but they're clocked and cached like a 266MHz-bus AthlonXP.
 
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