Duron 850 CPU Benchmarks

ravedaddy and quite a number of other folks wrote in with the news that Sharky's looks at the processor which benchmarks very well in comparison to Intel's 800MHz Celeron - the AMD Duron 850. Last week, with the release of the Celeron with a 100 Mhz FSB ^[?] , Intel jumped forward - while AMD's Duron has an equivalent 200 Mhz bus (100 Mhz buses). It looks like AMD is keeping the crown in the "Value" category.

Comments

Duron is a Great Chip

[cansecofan22]

I know that the Duron has been slow to take off because of a lack of an integrated chipset but I have been using a Duron 600 for a while now and with the 256 MB of RAM that I picked up for $100 it kicks ass. The chip is inexpensive (the 850 will be around $150) and the board with onboard sound costs about $100. Add 128 MB of RAM for $50 and a Voodoo 3 AGP card for about $70 and a $100 Maxtor (or Segate) 20 GB Hard drive and you have a fairly inexpensive system that will perform as well as any PIII 700 out there. And you are olnl talking a couple of hundred dollars. AMD is beating Intel all around. Now if they would only get there act together for a dual CPU system, there would be no holding them back!

Not just the value market

[Oscarfish]

A couple of weeks ago, I bought a T-Bird 1000 MHz chip and an Abit KT7-RAID. I got home, set it up, connected the L1 bridges, and stuck an Alpha PEP66 on it. I'm currently running at 1313 MHz (12.5 * 105).

The chip (the T-Bird) is a blue core, which means it came from FAB-30 in Dresden. From the pictures at Sharky's you can see they had a green core, which mean it came from Austin (and uses aluminum, not copper interconnects).

AMD vs. Intel

[CoBoLwArRiOr]

I've always heard people telling me that Intel was better than AMD, and AMD has had compatibility issues with Windoze. I had an Intel 486. That was the first and last Intel I've ever had. I haven't had one problem with AMD in the compatibiliy issue. When it comes down to it, price and performance don't lie. I'll take my AMD anyday. Durons seem to be decent chips for the price, but for power and speed (aren't we all speed demons?) I'm going to go with an Athlon Thunderbird for my next machine. As for the 'Intel is better than AMD' or 'AMD is better than Intel' battles that wage on, I feel that the best chip is whichever one does the job for you. For me, that's AMD.

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Re:Folks, you just don't get it ;-)

[toofast]

Yes, I use an 8-way SMP box boasting 8 Pentium III Xeon's @ 800MHz, with 2MB cache, and 1GB RAM as my home desktop machine. I just installed the Mylex RAID controller yesterday. The lights dim when I power it on.

My operating system of choice for this puppy: Windows 98. Beautiful SMP support, especially after I tweaked and recompiled the kernel. I get _at least_ 100fps in Quake3, in software rendering emulation mode.

Re:I told you so!

[Sloppy]

What does a 100MHz DDR FSB mean? It means that the CPU talks to the chipset at a 200MHz data rate even though the frequency is only 100MHz because it can send two bits of information per clock cycle instead of one.

IMHO, the best way to deal with this is to bring back an archaic-sounding word: baud. It's 100 MegaHertz but 200 MegaBaud. And if someone figures out a magic way to cram more transfers into each clock cycle, then we can talk about the baud measurement going up while, at the same time, avoid lying about the clock frequency.

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