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.

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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!