Would you move from a TBird 700@800 SlotA to a KT133A with a Duron 700 or so?

Noriaki

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I've found a guy that wants to buy my TBird 700 and SlotA mobo off me...then I could buy a KT133A board with the money he gave me there....the problem is I'm kinda broke right now, and a Duron 700 or so is probably the best chip I could afford.

Lets assume I will overclock, with an FOP32-1 heatsink...do you think the Duron 700 would do better than my TBird 700@800?

I'd have future expandability then to....but I don't know if it's really worth it..moving from a TBird to a Duron...do you know how much a clockspeed difference there has to be be for a duron to outperform a TBird? Lets say I get a 700/100 Duron up to 133 FSB on the KT133A that would be a 933Mhz Duron, would that outperform my 800Mhz TBird?

What would you guys do?

Sidenote: Is there anywhere I can get a KT133A board yet? I would prefer MSi, but Asus would be ok to.

Edit: I just looked at Anand's 1.2Ghz TBird, 800Mhz Duron review from October. The Duron o/c'd to 900Mhz falls a tad behind the TBird at 800Mhz. But both of those are 100Mhz DDR FSB with 133Mhz memory, my TBird 800 is on 100Mhz DDR FSB with 100Mhz memory (AMD750 NB), the Duron at 933Mhz would be 133Mhz DDR FSB and 133Mhz RAM....so it would probably edge ahead of the TBird 800.

Do you think it would be worth it? I'd probably just have to pay for the CPU & FOP32...and how likely is a Duron 700 to hit 933?
 

Adul

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If you can get the duron up to 950 or so it will be faster. But at least you leave yourself room to get a faster tbird down the road when you can afford one.
 

Subversal

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If 700 can hit 900+ I'd go for it. Besides the new board would be very upgradable. But I'd wait until more KT133A board come out before rushing out buying one. The Duron 700's I've tried (3) have hit 900MHz, one hit 1GHz. Anyway I'd wait and stay put.