Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 18:53:04 08/06/00
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On August 06, 2000 at 21:17:01, Peter Skinner wrote: >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 The Duron is not lower quality than the Athlon. They're the same, except the Duron has less L2 cache. If you want a fast Duron, though, you may as well get the Athlon because the price difference is small ($10). >personally will never by another AMD processor. I have owned 2 and had nothing >but problems. Intel all the way for me... I've had two AMD processors too. I had some problems with them, but I think all the problems were caused by the motherboards and not the processors themselves. You definitely need to be more careful about what kind of motherboard you get if you buy AMD... then again, AMD hasn't made a complete P.O.S. like the i820. -Tom
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