[plug] OT: Celeron vs Athlon

[mpople at orbeng.com.au]

Me and a mate just finished building up and Thunderbird 1130, 256mg ram,
Asus a7v mb, asus geforce2 v7700 64mb, 30gb ata100 7200 Quantum FB, sblive ,
swann modem, DVD all for $2400 
and it absolutly rocks (as could be expected) well worth the cash , we went
all out and i dont consider $2400 really overpriced for that sort of grunt
(we could of knocked a few bucks off buy going to other less reputable
shops)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kai [mailto:vk6ksj at siwa.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 1 February 2001 13:15
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] OT: Celeron vs Athlon
> 
> 
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 


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