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Would a 1.3 Duron be a decent upgrade for a 750 Duron?

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Salvador

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I have a work system with a 750 Duron and a Gigabyte GA-71XE4 200 fsb mobo running 512 mb's of PC133 RAM. I'm wondering if a 1.3 Duron would be a decent upgrade? Newegg's got OEM 1.3 Duron's for $50.

What do you think? Should I go for something like this or just do a bigger upgrade later?

TIA

Sal
 
I'd grab a 1.2 ghz Athlon mp, you should be able to find one for about 55 or so, and they are not only a good bit faster than the duron, AND multiplier unlocked, but they are way easier to cool due to the added die space. The one thing I hate about Durons is the small amount of die space, I can get an athlon 1900+ to run the same exact temps as a 1ghz Duron with identical cooling solutions, and the load temps on the duron are constantly higher than the 1900+ I have.
 
It'll be an OK upgrade but you can do far better. Palominos are both dirt cheap and much faster than Durons too - buy the fastest you can afford. Then later when you do a big upgrade you can simply move your processor to your new system.
 
Originally posted by: BFG10K
It'll be an OK upgrade but you can do far better. Palominos are both dirt cheap and much faster than Durons too - buy the fastest you can afford. Then later when you do a big upgrade you can simply move your processor to your new system.
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He cant buy an XP because as he said his board only supports 200fsb chips.

So yes a 1.3ghz Duron would be a nice upgrade from a 750mhz Duron.
 
Originally posted by: Budman
Originally posted by: BFG10K
It'll be an OK upgrade but you can do far better. Palominos are both dirt cheap and much faster than Durons too - buy the fastest you can afford. Then later when you do a big upgrade you can simply move your processor to your new system.
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He cant buy an XP because as he said his board only supports 200fsb chips.

So yes a 1.3ghz Duron would be a nice upgrade from a 750mhz Duron.
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News flash, XP's can run at 100mhz fsb. A low clocked Athlon MP is his best bet unless he can find an unlocked XP somewhere for cheap. He'll have complete controll over clock speed with an MP. He'll gain MMX, and more L1 and L2 cache which will help speed a good bit with that slow pc133.
 
I dont think underclocking an XP is the way to go, even if his mb supports this via jumpers or bios.

Ensure the mb will take the newer core durons as some older mbs wont. Go to the manufacturers page and check out the cpu compatibility.

I think upgrading to ddr ram will give you a productivity boost as large as continuing down the sdram road.
If your mb supports the 1.3, it would be a decent upgrade. A newer kt133a cs mb though maybe able to run that 750/100 at 1000/133 as well. My old 600 did that for a big jump along with the ddr.

**Just checked gigabytes web site for the GA-7IXE4? & compatibility chart says it supports duron 1300*******
 
**Just checked gigabytes web site for the GA-7IXE4? & compatibility chart says it supports duron 1300*******
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Thanks for your input everyone. Just to let you know, I've already checked the compatibility chart at Gigabyte for my mobo before I posted this. I believe that the XP/MP chip is out compatibility wise. I had originally wanted to go with a XP 1600+ OEM from Newegg because they are dirt cheap right now, but I'd have to swap the mobo. The only Athlon's I can run are up to about 950 mhz and I can run a Duron up to 1.4 mhz. I didn't want to have to change motherboards at this point, that's why I asked if going to something like a 1.3 or 1.4 Duron on this motherboard with the 512 mb's of PC133 RAM would be a worthwhile upgrade.

I guess the jury is still out. 😉

Thanks again.

Sal
 
I think it'd be worth it. As a parallel, I went from a 800Mhz PIII to a 1.2Ghz Tually Celeron (no other system changes) and saw a nice performance increase just from the extra 400Mhz (33% speed increase alone even though - in my case - the FSB was lower). The biggest difference was in games.

For $50 - yes. Perhaps, as others have said you might be able to do even better.
 
For $50 - yes. Perhaps, as others have said you might be able to do even better.
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Thanks for the response, but what do you mean by doing even better? Better in performance with something else or on the price of the Duron 1.3?

You said that you saw an increase in games? Do you think I'd see anything in day to day tasks like email, web surfing, Word?

Thanks again.

Sal
 
I don't know the AMD platform. . . . that's why I said other suggestions (XP/T-bird, etc.) might offer more performance.

You are talking about a 550Mhz increase over 750Mhz - that IS substantial. As far as Office apps and web surfing - except for better loading times, there isn't much difference. For games it IS noticeable.

Hope it helps.
 
I think you will notice it. I went from a 900MHz TBird to a 1.4 TBird and there was noticeable improvement. Of course my change increased the FSB, so that could have been alot of it. I was kind of in the same situation as you in that my motherboard will not reliably accept XP/MP processors, but I still wanted to keep what I had.

For $50, I don't think you can go wrong with this upgrade.
 
There is a Hot Deals thread right now for a 1.4Ghz T-bird for around $56HERE.

Again, you won't notice much difference in Office Apps or web surfing BUT you certainly WILL in games and CPU intensive apps.

Go for it. ; (or the Duron)
 
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