Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 10:46:40 08/07/00
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On August 06, 2000 at 22:36:33, stuart taylor wrote: >On August 06, 2000 at 21:53:04, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>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 > >How would a person know which motherboard is good? Most hardware sites post motherboard reviews. Tom's Hardware is a good one. >I've had a K6-3/400 and my supplier told me he gave me the most expensive >motherboard so there shouldn't be any problems, and I've had "nothing but >problems" also, and it seems to be from virtual memmory running low, for no >apparent reason (128mb)and causing slowness and freezing the whole time. Virtual memory running low sounds like a software problem. Are you sure this is what's happening? In my experience, if a computer is constantly freezing, it's a problem with the memory. But first make sure your computer's fans aren't broken. > (my supplier keeps blaming me for it, saying I don't know enough about >computers, but he doesn't tell me what I might be doing wrong. He seems to want >to get out of being responsible, but maybe it's the motherboard?). A computer should _never_ freeze due to operator error, no matter what. There's obviously something wrong with your computer, although it's hard to say exactly what. -Tom
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