AMD Duron > Reviews > Brilliant processor

Author's product rating:   

Speed	Very fast
Ease of Installation	Excellent - very quick and easy
Manufacturer Support	Good
Instruction manual	Satisfactory
Value For Money	Excellent

Advantages:	cheap, excellent performance
Disadvantages:	none

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

I have recently upgraded to a AMD Duron processor and it was superb. Coupled it with a powerful ABIT KT7 motherboard, it delivered suprb performance and beats Pentium III of the equivalent rank. Having an unlocked processor and a bios that supports soft clock speed setting, I could deliver the maxium performance out of the processor with little risk damaging the processor. The speed of the processor can also be varied according to the season - I can run a bit faster when the day is cooler and vice versa.
The price is also very competitive compared to Celeron or Pentium III.
With good performance and good price, this is the processor I would go for.
Also, Duron/Althon has much better upgrability compared to INTEL counter part as AMD is going to support Socket A for a reasonable
amount of time to come.