Why buy a Duron when the T-Bird is not that much more $$??

R6Veteran

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Im confused as to why so many people have purchased Duron chips whan the T-Bird chips are not really that much more money. I understand that the Duron is more overclockable, but wouldn't spending a few more $$ on a larger T-Bird be better? I mean isnt the T-Bird a faster, more stable chip??
 

RoadRuner

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A tbird is about 100mghz faster than the equivalent duron product at the same speed.

The copper tbirds are VERY overclockable.

ie if you bought the soon $165 t-bird 850 and got it to 1100 mghz you'd have something
faster than a duron @ 1200mghz


 

Oreo

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But at the same time no T-bird comes close to the 50$ Duron 600. If you get that to 950MHz+ thats some real cheap power!
 

pac1085

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Yeah...in my situation for example, I only had 250 to spend on a cpu/motherboard, so I had to get a duron 600, and an ABIT KT7-Raid, and that came to 250 shipped. The chip is nicely running at 950mhz now, so I'd say its about as fast as a 850 tbird...but 100 bucks less