thinking of upgrading

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lonewolf1983

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• Sep 27, 2001

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i currently have a duron 800,running on an epox 8 KTA2
i was thinking of upgrading to an athlon 1000,or possibly higher

i use my pc for seti@home (24/7) ,mpeg4 encoding and the occasional gaming session

was just after peoples opinions
btw i live in australia,and hardware aint cheap over here
(ie athlon 1000 is about $195 AUS)
may seem like not much,but im a poor student!!

 

Sonny

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• Sep 27, 2001

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Go ahead just don't starve yourself for a faster system

 

BigJohn

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• Sep 27, 2001

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The longer you wait the cheaper everything is. But then there is all this new stuff you want and it is hard to settle. I have no opinion, I'm sorry.

 

tbirdkiri

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• Sep 27, 2001

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well considering the duron 1ghz are the same price as the tbird 1ghz i recomend the duron cause of the Mrgan core is faster than tbirds.

 

i12bina3

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• Sep 27, 2001

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tbirdkiri ... dont forget that the cache is much bigger on the t bird so that makes the t bird a lot faster so i still think the t bird is faster then the duron ...

 

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foxmulder

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• Sep 27, 2001

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Besides 1Ghz Tbirds seem to be great overclockers

 

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lonewolf1983

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• Sep 27, 2001

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the duron 1ghz is slower than the athlon 1ghz and is more o/c able apparently

also i have no chance in hell of getting a morgan core
here in AUS