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286170 2004-10-30 03:50:00 Duron CPU: $55
Decent HSF: $55
Look on face when Duron dies within hour of purchase (inevitable): Priceless

My dad has a 1.1ghz Duron, and my old old old (My third-to-last PC) PIII 500 whipped it's arse. Then there's the random lockups...
george12 (7)
286171 2004-10-30 03:56:00 > What on earth are you on about. It seems to me that you have grossly misunderstood what I was trying to say.

ROTFLMAO :^O

Graham, you are much, much too subtle. ;-)

Poor George. :D
Susan B (19)
286172 2004-10-30 04:30:00 And if the fan fails, can we bring along some steaks and sausages to put on the heatsink?
Silly I guess, we couldn't make it around in 30 Seconds max.
Pheonix (280)
286173 2004-10-30 05:31:00 >Throw away your AMD cpu and get a P4.
Actually the Intel chips are now putting out more heat than an AMD and you would also need to throw away the MB. It pays to do your homework before tapping away on your keyboard.
mikebartnz (21)
286174 2004-10-30 06:08:00 >My dad has a 1.1ghz Duron, and my old old old (My third-to-last PC) PIII 500 whipped it's arse. Then there's the random lockups <

I think that would more a case of a urine poor mobo/chipset/mem config rather than the duron's fault. No way on earth could p111 500 match a duron 1100 on a properly setup rig a p111 1000 had trouble matching a duron 1100 on many benchmarks. This is coming from a realistic intel fanboy. :-)
But I know what you mean, I have seen many duron 800/1000 setups that are just like you have described, unreliable and seemingly gutless.
the highlander (245)
286175 2004-10-30 06:13:00 > It pays to do your homework before tapping away on your keyboard.

:^O
Azsen (155)
286176 2004-10-30 07:25:00 Well, it's kind of strange.

It's absolutely HORRIBLE at anything normal like word processing, logging in/out, shutting down/starting up, playing music etc.

And it can't play DVDs for s**t.

It has 256MB of PC133 ram btw.

But on things that are purely MHZ based like video encoding it does just the same as any other 1.1ghz chip.

Whatever, I hate it. I would never swap it for my Celly D 3.06ghz with 512MB DDR400 ram running at DDR333 because of changed FSB. But then, who would?

Oh, and it runs at 40 degrees and my one 3x the speed runs at 31,

George
george12 (7)
286177 2004-10-30 07:38:00 A cpu is not the measure of a computer,its the sum of all its parts,though durons did run a little hot(but well within their designed limits). metla (154)
286178 2004-10-30 09:32:00 I would nut it down to operator/maintainer issues then.....

Aside from that, in my old Desktop PC, I had a Volcano 9 - And you _really_ noticed it when it went from low speed --> Medium speed --> High speed!

Sure it kept it cool, but the noise was.... shocking.....
Chilling_Silence (9)
286179 2004-10-30 09:54:00 Yeah its a fine balance between great cooling and excessive noise with fan cooled systems - I used to use a Volcano 7+ - I think max rpms were about 6500 - 7000! It used to scream at full tit :D

Who cares about Durons and Celerons - they both suck with their crippling L2 cache sizes IMO :p
HadO (796)
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