Duron 900 or PIII 800E?

[bdf24]

In your opinion which one would perform better?
The other specs are:

BX chipset board for PIII 800
ECS K7S5A PRO for the Duron 900
512 megs PC133
60 gig IBM ATA 100 Hard-Drive
Radeon 7500 video card

I'm thinking the PIII 800 may out perform the Duron 900 by a slight margin. Seeing as the PIII 800 does have more cache. Besides I think the 800 is just more of a work horse then the Duron. I could be wrong though.
I have no plans on overclocking now so I'm thinking just stock speeds for now.

 

[Ben721]

Get the Duron and then you can always upgrade with DDR and a XP cpu.

 

[bdf24]

Actually I've already got the Duron. That's the system my wife is running right now. I just recieved the PIII 800 CPU from my brother after I upgraded his system. I've also got an old BX chipset board laying around I'm not using. So I was thinking maybe I'd swap the two to see if the PIII 800 ran better then the Duron.

 

[Monaco]

I went from Celeron 800 to a Duron 800- the speed increase was very noticeable.

The actual CPU did not seem much, if any, faster for most tasks, but most everything else was faster and smoother. I'm thinking it was the general speed increase in the chipset that made it faster- the DDR bus, particularly. It was easy to crank the FSB of the Duron sky-high, too. I'd probably stick with the Duron if I was in you situation.

Actually, scratch that- I'd switch to the 800E to play with it for a while, but I'[d eventually switch back to the Duron

Unless you're Folding! My Celeron/P3 rigs seem to Fold faster than comparably-clocked Durons.

the best thing to do is probably to spend some time with both rigs, and see which is better for what you do.

 

[JaY_III]

if you dont plan on spending any more money, and will be using the hardware you already have... i would run the P3 800E. The 133FSB and the extra cache will surly be faster. As long as the BX board you have is not a dog, than the 133FSB should not be a problem at all.

Also the Intel CPU is much easier to cool, so you wont need a loud fan.... but i am sure you already know that

But if you wanted to spend a few bucks, the ESC board will take an XP and DDR, so it wouldnt take much to make that a good computer either.....

So like i said, if you dont plan on spending any money, go Intel
If you can spend a few $$$'s on some cheap Upgrades, go AMD

and thats my $.02

 

[Monaco]

Sorry to be all nitpicky, but a P3 800E runs on a 100mhz bus, while the 800EB runs on the 133mhz bus. The Duron runs on a 100mhz bus, but if you unlock it, it can go quite a bit higher

Good point about the cache sizes, tho. The Athlon architecture is faster at equal clocks, but with so much less cache who knows! heh I know I'd like to race em

 

[sirtoby]

Go with the P3.. it should be faster than the Duron..

easiest way would be to just benchmark and see for yourself.. since it appears you have the stuff already?

 

[bdf24]

Well guys turns out I basically just sold the PIII 800E. I got it for free so I'd rather turn a profit from it then use it personally. I had a PIII 800E in the past and actually was not very satisfied. Although that was a slot 1 and this one is a socket 370. This one does seem to perform better though.

I'd love to play around with them more but with three kids running around and a wife that's in school. I cannot screw around with the PC's like I used to.

I built my wife a PC for upstairs in our room for school. But she still used both of them we have. So I have a hard time even messing around with mine downstairs anymore without getting yelled for reformating or something.