Hey i have got a slot a athlon 600mhz on a asus k7v motherboard in a old system but yesterday i got a duron 800 mhz on a jetway 663as motherboard is it worth replacing the athlon 600 slot a with the duron 800 socket a?

Oh and this is my first post on these forums so Hi all,

Qusal

QUOTE (Qusal @ Oct 7 2003, 09:50 AM) Hey i have got a slot a athlon 600mhz on a asus k7v motherboard in a old system but yesterday i got a duron 800 mhz on a jetway 663as motherboard is it worth replacing the athlon 600 slot a with the duron 800 socket a?

Oh and this is my first post on these forums so Hi all,

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I personally would stick with the athlon.

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QUOTE (Qusal @ Oct 7 2003, 10:04 AM) Its an allround system, i use it as a fileserver, backup computer, office computer and i also have a gf4 ti4400 in it so i can play 3d shooting games on it.
i'd stick with the Athlon...the extra cache helps a bit.

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Duron. The Duron is a Spitfire core, whereas the Athlon is almost certainly an old Pluto. Remember, people, it's not just one name versus another.

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hmmm...the Athlon has 512KB L2-cache versus 64KB on the Duron...but then the Athlon's L2 is off-die and runs only at half the core-clockspeed(=300MHz)...
also, socket A is a more modern platform...i think it'd be close...but if you OC the Duron it'll be faster, even if you also OC the Athlon, since the old Athlon has a 0.25µ-process and prolly can't go as high as the Duron which is 0.18µ.

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Easy, the Duron. The Duron 800 is about as fast as a TBird 750 overall, it is much faster than a TBird 600(which is faster clock/clock than a SlotA Athlon, due to fullspeed vs halfspeed L2 cache).

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Definately the Duron.SLOT A Athlons are a little bit outdated.You can easily overclock the Duron by unlocking the multiplier with a pencil so you should be able to get 900Mhz with absolutely no risk.That is if you "fancy" overclocking. .Plus,you can later change the cpu into a thunderbird without having to change the motherboard.

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QUOTE (PorBleemo @ Oct 8 2003, 12:14 AM) I would say Duron, it's faster FSB allows you to use DDR if you so choose. I think that and the 200Mhz core difference would help.

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thanks for all your reactions!

I have chosen to build in the duron!
Even though i cannot use any ddr ram because of the jetway motherboard!

i would stick with the socket A because it is still in use...(except A64) and most modern mobo's will run with those chips.

so i would pick the duron

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Good to see common sense prevailed. I have no idea why you guys would recommend using the CPU which is not only 200 Mhz slower (I know, clock speed don't matter...) but also a generational step BACKwards. (or more!.

The Duron 800 would win hands down. Cache or no cache difference.

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I heard some issue that Duron can running as Athlon with a little cache modification ... is it true ?

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If that info is correct ... which Duron can do that ??? how fast ???

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Yes, the new Applebred cores can. That's because the Applebreds are Thoroughbred-Bs with most of the L2 cache disabled. You can enable it again on most of them and get a discount Thoroughbred-B. (They're excellent OCers, too. Most of them must have been JIUHBs before they got their cache disabled.)

On a Spitfire core like the one being mentioned here, though, no dice.

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socketA duron 800mhz will faster I think

and you can also OC it to 133*6 or 133*7

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