[plug] Celeron vs Duron

[shishio at dingoblue.net.au]

On 24 Jan 2001, at 9:43, Dennis Plester wrote:

> A general question, but perhaps with still a Linux slant.
> 
> A friend of mine currently has a Celeron 400 running on a BX chipset
> motherboard, and is currently considering his upgrade options. They are
> either to upgrade to a Celeron 700 on the same board for approx $200, versus
> selling the board and CPU, and then shelling out approximately $375 - 400 to
> purchase a Duron 700 and suitable motherboard.
> 
> Web reviews and magazine articles infer that the Duron leaves the Celeron
> well behind in all benchmarks. The Celeron 700 still runs at a 66 MHz front
> bus speed, whereas the Duron runs at 100 as far as I understand, and
> supposedly has stronger floating point and integer math than the Celeron to
> boot.
> 
> My friend runs Windows exclusively, but wants to investigate Linux. He
> primarily plays games, and surfs the net. His system does not have any
> exotic hardware, just the basic sound card, 2D/3D video card (Geforce) and
> IDE harddrives, CDROM and CDRW. He previously had a real bad experience with
> a K6-2 plus, with its crap floating point letting him down in the 3D gaming
> department, so the word AMD tends to still put a shiver down his spine!
> 
> Based on plug members experiences, is the Duron the potent but cheap
> processor it appears to be? Are there any incompatibility issues that affect
> Linux in particular?
> 
> Any comments would be appreciated. If any Duron owners out there reply,
> could you indicate your motherboard model as well please?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dennis.
> 

Dennis, I have a Duron 600 [overclocked to 800Mhz], 128Megs 
RAM, AsusA7pro mainboard that was running ME [sorry, didn't 
play around with linux until recently] and a Celeron 566A 
[overclocked to 850Mhz], 160Megs RAM, Abit BH6 mainboard 
running 2k[same as before]. I don't really play games that much 
but I do quite a bit of encoding [divX, mpeg1/2 etc] and have 
noticed that my duron at 800 is around 20% faster than my 
Celeron at 850. If i didn't overclock the duron, it would be about the 
same speed as the overclocked celeron.

James