[plug] OT: Celeron vs Athlon

[Kai]

Hrmmm, alright, thanks for that...if CPU prices continue to be as low as
they are I might think about grabbing a mobo CPU combo that't best suit one
of the other !
I don't need a whole new machine, but I'm currently running a K6-2 400 with
128 Megs and I'm looking for a bit more speed...was wondering if it's worth
going the whole way and getting a 1Ghz ish Athlon....

/Kai

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Plester" <dennisp at tiwest.com.au>
To: "'plug'" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 4:54 AM
Subject: [plug] OT: Celeron vs Athlon


> Kai wrote:
>
> "I've been reading the questions about Celeron vs Duron....but I'd like to
> know if it's worth sending the extra $150 or so to buy an Athlon over a
> Duron.
> Any comments are appreciated !"
>
> It's a case of how you value money and sheer maximum available clockspeed.
> Over the last couple of months, it looks like AMD have started slowly
moving
> towards a spread market, where the Durons go from 700 - 850, and the
Athlons
> from 800 upwards. Each time the Durons go one higher, the slowest Athlon
> drops out of the race, if you catch my meaning. When you compare a Duron
and
> Athlon side by side at the same clock speed, there is only a marginal
> difference, due mainly to the different levels of cache. The Durons allow
a
> much cheaper entry at $120 for a CPU, but you will need to go Athlon to
get
> much above 800, unless you resort to overclocking of course! Even with
that
> though, the Durons reach an absolute limit of 1050 MHz with fairly radical
> overclocking methods, where the naturally aspirated Athlons get to 1.2 G
or
> so anyway...
>
> I went Duron because I had a very tight cash window, which Duron and
m/board
> could fit through, but the Athlon couldn't...The $150 difference paid for
a
> fair chunk of the new motherboard.
>
> My 2c.
>
> Dennis.
>
>
>