Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 12:50:14 08/08/00
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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
>personally will never by another AMD processor. I have owned 2 and had nothing
>but problems. Intel all the way for me...
I have currently in my office 4 AMD K6-2 processors. Never had any problem with
them. Before that, I had some AMD K5 and AMD 386 and 486.
The only problem I can remember is that the AMD 486-133MHz did not work on one
motherboard. But it worked fine anywhere else I have tried.
I had no problem with the other AMD processors I owned. If I count them, I think
I have been using 6 or 7 of them in the last years. So I can say I have some
experience with them.
Chess Tiger has been developped 80% of the time on AMD processors. It started in
1992 with the 386dx-40MHz (when Intel was only supplying 386dx-33MHz
processors).
On the other hand, just yesterday, a friend of mine had a problem with a P166
not working on a motherboard, when it was doing fine on another one. I have had
myself problems with Intel processors in the past.
I am going to build a new test computer with old spare parts I have in the
office. The only thing missing now is the processor (I have everything else). So
I'm going to buy a K6-2 500MHz today.
And Chess Tiger runs 10% faster on K6-2 than on a PIII of the same clock
frequency.
My opinion: AMD processors are cheaper, run faster, and are of the same quality
than Intel processors. And since several years.
Christophe
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