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Which is better, Duron 1.2 or Athlon 1Ghz 266FSB?2

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Naths

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I'm planning to upgrade my Duron 800. I'm confused which to buy, a Duron 1.2 or Athlon Thunderbird 1Ghz 266FSB. They are priced the same. Which is faster? HELP!
 
By all means .................. go for the Athlon/266, if you can afford a little more $ then get the 1.2G or 1.4G Athlon.

The 1.2G Duron has the newer Morgan core, but ............... the Athlon has twice the on-die cache!

Note: Make sure you have an AMD approved PSU and it's rated for the power hungry Athlons' .........!
 
They will perform pretty close to each other, the l2 cache does hurt the morgan core but it is still very close to the tbird clock for clock.
Here is some results from hardocp, they are old but they do show the performance between the two.
 
Please check and bear in mind that if you originally have a duron in that mobo, and want to use that same mobo. It probably only supports a 200MHZ fsb and thus wouldn't work at full speed with a 266 fsb athlon. Of course you could get the proc now and upgrade the mobo later. THe athlon would be slightly better all around I think. Though I don't think you'll really get a "good seat of the pants speed" with it either.
 
I would choose the Duron, simply because it has SSE and data prefetch logic. Furthermore, since it's Morgan cored, you can probably get a decent overclock from it.
 
Depends on ur use w/ the PC. The larger L2 cache on the Athlon will help in gaming & pic editoring. The Duron less L2 cache is compliment by a more efficient core, run cooler & SSE.

I'lll favour the Duron.
 
Get the Athlon 1.0 and OC the crap out of it. You should be able to get a decent OC from the 1.0. I've got mine at 1323MHz right now using a thermalright sk-6.
 
actually....you can't get too much for o/c with the duron. i'd say that if you have a board that supports true 266 fsb, and plan to o/c.......go for the athlon....otherwise the duron is a good chip. runs cooler, has the #Dnow and SSE enhancements, and it is actually rated faster tahn a 1.1 athlon 266...........so yeah hope that helps.
 
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