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Originally posted by bromide
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Originally posted by bromide
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:eek: :confused: i'm confused, why bump(gravedig is a better word) this one? :confused: :p
i am building a little router/server and would like to get more opinions :cool:
wouldn't it be better to start a new thread? I mean the hardware brought up here is "ancient". I mean, athlon xp's have phased out durons for the most part at this pricepoint and made buying a celeron equally pointless for all but intel diehards...
oh- my bad
The new durons arent bad if you want to go real cheap. They uped the FSB to 266 and most OC like a champ for $35. The celerons just dont have enough cache to be decent.Quote:
Originally posted by speedyaxon
wouldn't it be better to start a new thread? I mean the hardware brought up here is "ancient". I mean, athlon xp's have phased out durons for the most part at this pricepoint and made buying a celeron equally pointless for all but intel diehards...
This is old yet still a contemporary question. Certainly I would take a Duron over a celeron. The hot ticket is the 1.6Ghz which suposedly can have its L2 enabled making it a Tbred in essence. Not to mentioned you can score a base Tbred for little more than $50. If you need something without bells or whistles you can get it now for dirt cheap
Avoid Celerons! Durons are the same price if not CHEAPER and run 200/266Mhz FSB and 192/256kb cache. The new ones (1.4Ghz, 1.6Ghz I think) are the better ones with the 266Mhz FSN and 256kb cache.
Celerons have slow 100Mhz FSB and 128kb cache... Nows that is a joke CPU.
OMG!! You grave digger you. I bet you raid ancient burial grounds on the weekend don't you... :eek:Quote:
Originally posted by bromide
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But yeah Today Durons > Celerons or you could get a 2500+Barton and a Shuttle AN35N-Ultra for $150 at Newegg..
Funny, someone revives this yesterday, then today this article pops up on Anandtech. :p
That was a great read! The 1.6ghz duron spanked the 2.6ghz celeron every benchmark. Plus it cost about 2/3 less. I am going to buy the duron for my 2nd machine. :)Quote:
Originally posted by V5500-StillGoing
Funny, someone revives this yesterday, then today this article pops up on Anandtech. :p
Yes, a very good article.
And for a decent running machine, a duron suddenly doesnt look so bad. :)
I was about to say the same! yah if you want something really cheap check the ECS MB w/duron "built-in" out.Quote:
Originally posted by V5500-StillGoing
Funny, someone revives this yesterday, then today this article pops up on Anandtech. :p
That much more? Funny I bought a 1.1GHz Tbird four months ago for $29. Less than the Duron's at the time.Quote:
Drop this celeron/duron crap. If you are going to be running a server as an internet gateway. Make it a Thunderbird. About 50-70 dollars more makes the differnce between a good computer and a top of the line server. And it will work on all the same boards that the duron will.