Duron or Thunderbird
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what i'm doing...
I have a PIII600e@800 on Asus's CUSL2 motherboard. I don't plan to build a DDR chipset Thunderbird system until the middle of next year.
i'd go with the A7V. it has all teh capisters away from the cpu so a large fan and heat sync is easy. Apparently i was told at computer avenue that the abit mobo's don't like dimoand maxtor drives. Duron are easier to overclock since the defult woltage is 1.5 and the board will go to 1.85. the thunderbird defult is 1.75. It is not adviasble to push a duron past 1000 since you will see almost no difffernece in any benchmark form 1000 to 1100. It just isn't in the chip articeture. Therefor since my student loan is comming in shortly i am going for the thunberbird
The durons % of overclocking better is not true. the percentage is statistically insignificant. The durons also do NOT scale as well at the higher frequencies. The smaller amount of cache cannot keep up with the rest of the system so at the high end freq. the tbird picks up more %points of performance increase over the duron.
However that oced duron is still a better value than a p3 or even a tbird for most people's use.
However that oced duron is still a better value than a p3 or even a tbird for most people's use.
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Hmmm..
Duron or Thunderbird.
The 1gig Thunderbirds are so cheap now might as well get those.
oh nevermind, guess I'll go with the K7V thanks
The abit boards has all the problem with the orb coolers right?
[Edited by GreenTurtle on 11-24-2000 at 04:51 PM]
Duron or Thunderbird.
The 1gig Thunderbirds are so cheap now might as well get those.
oh nevermind, guess I'll go with the K7V thanks
The abit boards has all the problem with the orb coolers right?
[Edited by GreenTurtle on 11-24-2000 at 04:51 PM]
I'm sure Greenturtle meant Asus's A7V not K7V. K7V is for slot a athlons. http://www.asus.com.tw/products/Motherboard/slota.html
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yeah , the A7V
$130 +shipping for the mb, but $250 for the Thunderbird makes it all worth it. Heck, the one gig PIII cost more by itself. Can't wait for the dual processor version to come out. Can you imagine how fast the DVD rip will go with dual 1.5g
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