Tbird or duron

[Flanagun]

My friend is building a new system and is wondering if he should get a athlon 950 or a duron 1 gig. He's gonn ado a small oc on it either ways so which one will give better proformance?

[TheHigherPower]

The 950 athlon will outperform the 1000 duron, especially if it's a 266 fsb athlon.

[flounder43]

Neither, get an Athlon 1.0 gig. They are usually the same price as the 1.0 gig Duron.

[alkaline]

Well, me personally, I would go with the Duron 1ghz, because the Duron 1ghz is based on the new Morgan Core with SSE enhancements. your equivelantly clocked Athlon will still be a little faster than this processor though.. but with overclocking it could be a nice little chip, although u could overclock the athlon just as much and it would still be a little faster.. but all in all i would get the duron 1ghz just because of its new core technology.

[whooping_a_panda]

Hmmm.... what to say, Hello to the forums i guess. Being this thread is about me i should probably elaborate a bit on what is going on. The mobo I bought is an older one and has a 200 Mhz fsb. It will support chips up to 1.1 Ghz. I've been wanting to oc a processor for quite some time now and this oppurtunity seemed to be the a perfect chance for me to try it out. Idealy I will oc the chip to the 1.1 limit (that is as far as it will go wont it) and I want to know if the Duron with it's Morgan core or the T-bird with the larger cache would give me a better performance at the same speeds. Thanks for your help and please correct me if im wrong in any of my thinkings in this post (I'm still a newbie i guess)
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Jon Austin

[Flanagun]

Welcome to the forums Jon. I was wondering when you would finaly get an account here.

[whooping_a_panda]

Truthfully I've had an account since the forums were switched over... I'm just lazy and haven't gotten around to it till now :)

[alkaline]

Your Athlon would still be a little faster but not by much than the Morgan Core Duron.. the athlon has more cache.. I think there are some benchmarks at www.anandtech.com just look in their processors section.

[Christoph]

For durability, you can't beat a Duron (actually you can!). I've seen several posts from people with Duron cores with all 4 corners chipped off that still worked fine. That and the Morgan core would seem to me a distinct advantage over the Athlon. If you do go for the Athlon you might want to get a slow Duron as a backup.

[krakerman]

personally id go w/ the athlon. the extra cache will make more of a difference i think than the features in the 1gig duron. too bad they didnt up the cache on that puppy!

[zangler]

check out tom's review, and the athlon is still better. you have to use programs that use the sse instruction set for it to really make a difference.