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Opinions on Duron processor
28.03.04 at 19:14:31
 
Opinions on the Duron processor please.

Considering building a glide box with my Voodoo 5500.

Duron 1.6 is about £25 at the moment- dirt cheap.

Already have a Athlon 2600XP based system with twin Voodoo 2's and a Geforce 4600 card, so don't need this system as a main gaming rig.

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Re: Opinions on Duron processor
Reply #1 - 28.03.04 at 19:18:49
 
The Duron 1.6GHz is a nice CPU, but I'd look out for used AthlonXP's as well.

Depending on the deal, you might get quite a better 'bang for the buck' with those.
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Reply #2 - 28.03.04 at 20:08:45
 
I'ma get beaten to death with a yard stick for this, but Duron cpu's suck ass.

They're like.. eek.. Celerons..
might aswell get a cheap celeron 1.4ghz (tualatin) or a celeron 2.4ghz, they cost about the same..
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Reply #3 - 28.03.04 at 21:09:45
 
Hmm, I've built only one Duron system, I wasn't extremely impressed, but it did the job. Of course, it was for an internet/email/mord processing machine, so gaming wasn't of overly great importance, and it was only a 1.2GHz CPU. OTOH, I think you can probably find an Athlon XP CPU for a decent price, and get much better bang for your buck, as someone else said.

Also, celeron and duron really shouldn't be compared too much...a celeron is a much better CPU, unless you're one of those nuts who want to try modding your Duron (don't ask me about this, I know very little about it). But you can almost undoubtedly get an AXP for the price of a celeron, which would waste a celeron any day. I wouldn't even think, though, about getting a socket370 CPU, they're so old and expensive for the performance you get from 'em
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Reply #4 - 28.03.04 at 21:39:01
 
*lol*

The intel Celeron is known to have by far the worst IPC ever observed in any x86 CPU design to date Tongue

The AMD Duron, however, still packs its 128k of L1 Cache, plus the exclusive 64k L2 Cache, bundeled with the far superior FPU of the Athlon family.
Add SSE to it, with a fairly low specific power consumption (Celerons have almost the same TDP than Pentium4's!), and you have a really decent CPU in the very low price region.

At 1600MHz, it is measured almost persistently faster than a Celeron 2600MHz (!)

And I don't know where you guys live, but here, the Celeron 2600Mhz is at least 2x (rather 2.5-3x) the price of a Duron 1600Mhz Tongue
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All in all, that's why tech-experienced Users normally won't even touch a Celeron.

Against the AMD Duron, there is practically only one competitor :
...the AMD AthlonXP

To make a long story short :
If you buy a Celeron, you either want to spend 2-3x the money on eqal or less performance, or really have an odd reason to do so (e.g. keep an existing intel platform at all costs).
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Reply #5 - 28.03.04 at 21:39:36
 
er,  the celeron P4 is the worst Intel CPU since the celeron 266 and 300 without L2 cache  Wink
you can get an XP2400+ at the same price as a celeron 2.4ghz

that's what I chose for my main PC, because it maxes out my K7S5A which is one of the last mobos to support my V5 5500 AGP
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Reply #6 - 29.03.04 at 07:58:59
 
http://www.vanshardware.com/reviews/2002/01/020123_Duron_13/020123_Duron_13.htm

^the only review i could find of a 1.6ghz duron


BTW nothing beats the good ol' Tualatin P3.
Those babies can give the P4 2.4ghz a competition.

And the only difference between a P3 Tualatin and a Tualatin Celeron is the cache, p3 has 512kb, celery has 256kb.

Same core same features same speed etc', ONLY difference is the cache.
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Reply #7 - 30.03.04 at 09:17:02
 
In fact, if someone remembers, there was a set of comparison tests between the last P3 (1.4 or 1.5 Ghz) and a P4 at 2 Ghz. Given all the huge bandwidth it had, and 400 Mhz bus, the P4 was seriously slowing in some apps, even in some games. The only thing that is good on P4 is that it was somehow cheaper to build by Intel, in fact seriously cheaper (less transistors, less cache) to compete with Athlon.

Even now, P4 are looking kind of freezed in that Mhz battle, they alway seek higher and higher frequencies, but the overall performance is not scalling so good. And when your CPU hogs up 100 W, whereas a Athlon uses 60-70, it MAKES a difference on cost effective performance.

Unfortunatly I've heard nothing about VIA C4 processors. They were a run for their money, even if they are slower than a Duron, but it would have make it the best ever mobile sollution, with the lowest power consumption. But giving the fact that Intel is still in 80% of the mobile computers, there is almost no place for AMD, not even talking about VIA.
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Reply #8 - 30.03.04 at 11:54:35
 
Pentium4:
remember HyperThreading, SSE3 (Prescott only) etc. technologies not used extensively yet, but the days will come...believe  Wink should I remember you all why p4 was slower in its very beginning than a P3? the fsb (P3 133, P4 100), but i think we have overcome these days yet & with intel having licenses for AMD's 64bit technology, let's see what'll come  Smiley (at all, i'm not considering bying crappity smacking intel)

Celeron:
sucking cpu, the only good thing is the o/c capacity. i heard of one guy giving a 1,5GHz celeron 100%/3GHz only adjusting a water cooler on it.

Duron:
faster than a celeron, yeah, but no real o/c at all. at least from what i know (a 1GHz morgan wasn't able to)

AthlonXP:
might be worth the try, if you get a used & cheap one, as somebody replied already.

let's not forget: a voodoo5 needs high scaled cpus nowadays if you consider playing modern games, i.e. mesafx & 3d analyzer take a high profit of it when making the cpu doing the h t&l stuff. so you'd run better with the fastest&cheapest you can get  Grin if you only want to give your old glide games a profitable hardware environment, you're of course satisfied with a duron (at least i was w/ a TB1GHz)
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Reply #9 - 30.03.04 at 12:00:21
 
er, andrei, i don't think anybody would buy a via cpu for a gaming rig. i wouldn't even buy one at all! of course, cheap stuff, but wasted money anyway. no further coment on that.
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Reply #10 - 30.03.04 at 12:20:49
 
I didn't even thought of a gaming rig when talking about VIA C4. As I've said it is a good CPU for desktop, office apps, and a very low power consumption CPU for laptops. For these things it is very good. Not for games, 3D graphics and video editing.

Comment on Micha post: I agree almost totally. The only thing is that in the past and at the moment, there are cases in which an older CPU might perform slightly better than you'd expect. It's CPU arhitecture and design, rather than raw, brute Mhz muscle power that counts more sometimes. Besides that, CPU performance is sometimes not as scalable as you might expect it to be...
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Reply #11 - 30.03.04 at 22:33:53
 
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The Celeron ? yes, i knew : the 300A !

lol, the only celeron I've ever bought! $5, and now it runs at 450 whenever I use it

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The Celeron better than the Duron ??
And in my town, for the price of a Celeron 2400, i can obtain an Athlon XP 2400+ ... ???


Alright, I'm sorry, but yet, cost-wise and stock speed, the Duron kicks a**. I meant if you get the choice between the two for like the same cost, then yeah, the celeron would probably be a better choice. I have a friend with a 700MHz Celeron running at 784MHz on stock Dell cooling, using SoftFSB I believe. And I'll take Micha's word that Duron's don't OC, although I don't OC other ppl's PCs. But you can, as I stated before, get an AthlonXP for the same price as that celeron, so the whole subject is really pointless.
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Reply #12 - 31.03.04 at 21:15:25
 
the modern celeron is a bastardized P4 even worse than the original Willamette P4, and now the duron is a 0.13µ part. Some people have a duron 1.4@2.2ghz with missing L2 cache enabled (!) by connecting some bridges on the cpu
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Reply #13 - 01.04.04 at 15:13:14
 
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I didn't even thought of a gaming rig when talking about VIA C4. As I've said it is a good CPU for desktop, office apps, and a very low power consumption CPU for laptops. For these things it is very good. Not for games, 3D graphics and video editing.

i suppose the topic was about a cpu for a gaming rig...at least, whodovoodoo2man wrote about a glide box..

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It's CPU arhitecture and design, rather than raw, brute Mhz muscle power that counts more sometimes. Besides that, CPU performance is sometimes not as scalable as you might expect it to be...

guess what? why do you think i mentioned the p3/p4 fsb again? or hyper threading & sse3? of course, most implementations count more than clock --> that's why we rather would buy an athlonxp than a p4 for hardcore performance, isn't it?

concerning this duron/celeron struggle:
as i know, both are just "small" models of their mainstream brothers (i.e. p4 & athlonxp) with a redesigned, but still actual core. so the duron applebred is a barton with only 64kb l2 cache enabled (somebody there might unlocked da sh*t already), it's the same thing w/ celeron. just @ lower clocks. Smiley

>>adding<<
well, the o/clocked duron @ 2.3GHz is interesting, patience! but we know every cpu to have its own specific behaviour when o/clocked..so it might be hard to find one whose able to o/c in this dimensions (without some cooling else than air or water  Grin )
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Reply #14 - 06.04.04 at 09:55:41
 
Actually, the SSE, HT didn't and perhaps they would never revolutionise the world, no matter what. The only good use for them is marketing...

What would be more usefull than 5Ghz, would be a CPU  and in fact a whole PC, designed from ground-up, taking into account the future. Until now, nothing moves this way, just a bit more, a bit more, and it works (or not so).

At the moment I suppose there are black holes in the mind of CPU developers, as noone actually know 100% what is inside the CPU, because it got by far too complicated. And really, I see no efficiency when you need a 5Ghz CPU. Make some calculations on paper, and even if you take everything into account, you find out that the expected performance and times to make some operations are far from real situation. If the above is wrong, why we are talking about scalable performance? If all the CPU's would be scalable, wouldn't this word would be with no sense?
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