New Durons : anyone got one?

I may be building a PC for my dad, and was thinking of going with a Duron 1.6GHz. Anyone got one/got any benches?

It probably wont be overclocked, so it needs to be pretty decent at stock.

TIA

How much do they cost? It's hard to imagine buying one with the cheap XP's that clock to insane speeds.

Atleast in finland they are not available yet. I think it's looking very promising though, as people have allready figured out how to enable the cache!

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=52134

£33.09 including VAT. Probably just under the price of an XP1700+.

Hi!

I've read an artice on a german OC-Page concerning Durons.
They seem to be very OC-Friendly
this is a direct link to the benchmarks (look on the previous pages for system-details)
Concerning the price of a Duron it's worth to look for other reviews...

Hope that helps you.

L0stS0ul

Also if you get lucky you can make it into an XP just by bridging one cut L2 bridge.
Some work just fine (their cache is good) some don't (cache faulty). I know I saw on overclockers.ru (linked by ed) that they had 2 durons, both had their L2 cache reenabled but only one worked fine with the enabled cache, the second acted up, till they disabled the cache in the BIOS, which made the PC run w/o problems, but really slow. So just making a small bridge work is undoable and if the chip's L2 isn't good u can always revert back to the duron state