[plug] Celeron vs Duron

[Ari Finander]

I read in the latest issue of one of the Australian computer magazines
that the Duron has a 200mhz FSB, whereas the latest of celerons go to
100Mhz.  Where the 66mhz Celerons end, and the 100Mhz FSB Celerons
begin I can't recall at this time.

However, if your friend decides to replace the board and CPU, let me
know, as I need to upgrade my wife's computer soonish (after I'm out
of hospital soonish, that is), and I love my Cel400/Aopen BX board
(then again, I play no 3D games and run an old 8mb TNT card or some
such).

Ari
spodosaurus at start.com.au

Original message from: Dennis Plester <dennisp at tiwest.com.au>
>
>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.
>
>
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