Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 18:17:01 08/06/00
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On August 06, 2000 at 19:11:20, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On August 06, 2000 at 02:21:33, Derrick Wilson wrote: > >> Will I see a big jump from a Amd 450? will it be worth it to upgrade? Are duron >>processors reliable? Do they overheat? > >You probably won't be very impressed with the jump from a K6/450 to a Duron/650. >The K6 is a good chip and you'd probably want a 750+ MHz Athlon or Pentium to >make the upgrade worthwhile. > >A Duron will never break unless it's incorrectly cooled. > >-Tom I agree.. to make the upgrade worth while.. go above 750 Mhz... anyhting under that, and you are wasting money... Also, go for an actual Athlon, or PIII, the Duron is a lower quality processor... but I guess you get what you pay for. Me personally will never by another AMD processor. I have owned 2 and had nothing but problems. Intel all the way for me...
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