AMD Duron 1.3 GHz processor

Advantages: fast, reliable, cheap, cool running
Disadvantages: not available in high clock speeds, New motherboard may be necessary, Overclocking might be difficult

...The AMD Duron is one of the most powerful CPUs on the market today for the money. A 1.3Ghz chip can be picked up for around the £40 mark. The processor will only fit in a Socket A motherboard, so if you are currently an Intel user you would need to buy a new motherboard to install it. There are no instructions to speak of unless you buy the retail version but its a doddle anyway. Just open the lever on the socket. Drop the chip in (it only fits one way) close the lever, clip the fan assembly over it and your away!. I have a Duron 800Mhz chip in my machine and its fully compatible with Windows XP and every application I run. The Duron has less cache on board than the Athlon but it doesn't really make much of a difference performance wise, if you compare the two chips at the same clock speed. The Duron can be overclocked but its... Read review

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Advantages: Reliable, easy to fit/setup, huge expansion capability
Disadvantages: may need to upgrade pc case to fit it in.

...My pc was running at a snails pace so I decided to upgrade the processor to AMD’s Athlon XP 2gb chip, this required a motherboard update. The Epox EP-8KTA+ presented the solution. The motherboard comes with a user manual, floppy ribbon, hard drive ribbon cable, usb cable and drivers and utility disk. The Epox board supports the AMD Athlon and Duron processors from 600 MHz to 1.3 GHz, However a new BIOS patch allows it to run up to 2.2 GHz. The Board is of the ATX form factor and requires at least a midi tower to fit in, dimensions are 305mm (H) x 245mm (d). The I/O (In/Out) back panel has PS/2 keyboard and mouse sockets, 1 parallel printer port, sound and microphone lines, 2 com ports and 4 usb ports. The memory is pc133/vc133 168 pin DIMM and the board can take 32 MB to 1.5 GB thanks to the 4 DIMM slots available VIA AC97 onboard... Read review

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Advantages: stability, speed
Disadvantages: --

...The AMD Duron is a very good alternative to the more expensive Pentium 4 and Athlon processors. Line-moderately the Duron core is based on that of the Athlon and brings therefore also Anna-honouring just as good achievement (closer information see bench mark). For fast plays with complex diagram I would recommend this processor. I have mean AMD tested computers with some running plays, which ran all very good and made no problems. Generally I am with my Duron 1.2 Ghz. Very contently. He falls hardly off and mostly only if any program not reliably runs and an error has. The AMD Duron 1.2 Ghz. runs with a Frontside bus from 2x100 MHz. This processor is meant for all Main boards, which possess a A-base. The Motherboard operates the processor with a tension of approximately 3.3 V. The price for this processor is to be decided a second good... Read review

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Advantages: blasting 200MHZ FSB
Disadvantages: low L2 cache

...AMD is one of the most superscaler, low priced and innovative cpu provider.. one of them is the Duron processors series.... that is low priced and powerful.... i own an AMD Duron CPU @ 1GHZ speed... it's performance is superb.... it has the latest core architecture , that supports 200 Mhz DDR front side bus (FSB)... has 128KB of L1 cache but a low L2 cache that is 64KB... but this does't let this cpu down.... technically, it is the younger brother of ATHLON series... the Duron processor offers Enhanced 3D Now technology and 3 floating points pipelines that offer more processing speed for applications... the 3D Now technology is playable for 3D applications and games.... i work on 3D Studio max by using this cpu and the processing power is excellent... the whopping 200Mhz FSB is the blasty feature of the Duron series... that is useful... Read review

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Advantages: Duron is good for value.
Disadvantages: It has none.

...be to buy a Duron. You may want to buy a different processor, but why??? The AMD Thunderbird is only slightly better than the Duron in some aspects and also it is a lot more expensive than the Duron. Celeron as i have said are a waste of money as they as just purely crap. right, back to the mainstream of things, you could go and spend a lot of money on a PIII but why, the PIII is only good at over the 1GHz mark anything before it is ruled by the AMD family of processors so i don't recommend it. So overall for people thinking about upgrading, i highly recommnd the AMD Duron, it's good for value, i mean it's damn good for value, it's better tahn the Celeron and it's also very overclockable. For overclocking, i would look into it and buy a motherboard that will allow you to adjust certain things so you can't just go skimpy on the motherrboard. Atthe... Read review

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