[plug] Celeron vs Duron

[navarre at plug.linux.org.au]

Hello Dennis

I have a healthy bias against Intel and M$ products thus I would 
recommend going the AND Duron with a VIA KT133 chipset mainboard, 256 Meg 
RAM. You have identified that the Celeron is only using 66MHz front side 
bus where the VIA chipset can use 100 or 133 Mhz SD RAM and a 200MHz 
front side bus. That should be much faster. Also, using VIA chipsets, 
especially the likes of Asus A7Pro and A7V mainboards will give you an 
Award BIOS. This is also a big plus in stable, configurable systems.

Others may like other mainboard/ CPU configurations, but in my experience 
I have had nothing but grief using Intel hardware.

Over the weekend I expect to build a second system for myself and that 
will be Duron 700MHz based with 256Meg PC-133 RAM to be used as a test 
machine, running Winblows 98 and Debian Potato. I will be using this 
machine to run some programs that only run under windows like Winfax, 
Snappy, IE5, Netscape for Windows and M$ Access.
I hope to use Win4Lin eventually to put Windows in a box and control it.

Thus I am saying that the Duron 700 and a good stock of RAM should be a 
good value move into current technology. The two Asus mainboards I quoted 
will also run Athlon CPU past 1.2 GigHz.

The Duron and Athlon CPUs are the same core with differing amounts of 
internal cache.
My main system, as I believe is the case for some/many on the mail list, 
is an Athlon based system. I am using a 950MHz Athlon CPU with 256Meg RAM 
Asus A7V Mainboard and it is well stable. I also believe the new 2.4 
kernal code supports Athlon/ Duron in its CPU selection list, perhaps Mr 
Some-One Else could clarify this.

Navarre

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 1/24/01, 9:43:57 AM, Dennis Plester <dennisp at tiwest.com.au> wrote 
regarding [plug] Celeron vs Duron:


> A general question, but perhaps with still a Linux slant.


> Any comments would be appreciated. If any Duron owners out there reply,
> could you indicate your motherboard model as well please?

> Thanks

> Dennis.