800TB or 1g

[g.nEUz]

I thought about buying a new cpu. i got a duron 600 and was considering a TB800 or 1g. should i go with the 800 and overclock it to 1g or something? which cooling should i use? got a silver orb. is the perfomance of the 1g better than the overclocked one? with the money i save buying a 800 i could get some cooling.

[Upptown]

Why not just overclock what you got. Plenty of people round here have their 600 durons up around 900+.

[overdosis]

I agree with uptown. No point in shelling out more money, when you can get up there in the 900's with your Duron.

[Fenris]

another vote for your Duron! Go and tune it up, who knows, maybe you get a better result than with a new T-Bird.
BTW, 1 Gig is always 1 Gig, no matter if the CPU is overclocked or not!

[AZZKICKER]

that isnt true my friend
if you have a 1 gig t bird that is made for a 10 x 100fsb
and you run it @ 7.5 x 133 the performace of the 133 FSB is MUCH HIGHER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

check this out here http://www.xbitlabs.com/mainboards/ga-7dx.html

seen a t bird on a 155 fsb @ 987mhz out performing the same chip @ 1050 (10.5 x 100fsb)

and for me my benchmarks are much higher than stock 1 gig t bgirds

T Bird 850 @ 1016mhz, A7V

[g.nEUz]

i don't still don't know. i overclocked the duron to 1g. it runs stable, so far. i am just using the regular orb with temp. dependant speed. i get 50c on it. i don't know if that's ok but it's stable there. to the performance thing now. i only get 300 points more in 3dmark2k. that's not a real boost having in mind that i got 400 mhz more now. i'm at about 4700 i don't know know why. i got a radeon 64mb vivo(bulk so i o/ced it to the normal core speed), 256 mb ram 133mhz, ibm 30 gb, a7v, win98se (again, after having tried me for a month). i really don't think 4700 points is enough for that type of hardware. please tell me what could be holding me down!!!!!!!

[Fenris]

Azzkicker: You´re right, but g_neuz was only considering buying a better CPU. To achieve a FSB of 133, he will have to buy a new mainboard as well.

[AZZKICKER]

your correct

the A7V133 should be out anyday now