AMD Duron vs. Intel Celeron

DeadBugs writes: "With all the hype surrounding the new Athlon XP and P4 2.2 GHz, the more affordable processors have been ignored. Tech-Report has a great article comparing the new AMD Duron and Intel Celeron. Both are now running at 1.2 GHz and have upgraded cache. The new Duron contains XP technology, while the Celeron is a PIII Tulatin with a 100MHz bus and built on the .13 micron process."

Comments

Re:leading zeros

[xah]

Again, the word "nazi" here is used in a positive sense. I find that regrettable. The Nazis did not become best known for their strictness, but for their acts of overt evil.

For all numerical values greater than or equal to zero, and less than or equal to one, the numerical value is used in the singular sense. Thus, "0.13 micron" is the proper English usage.

One could list a few values as: "Zero micron, 0.5 micron, 1 micron, 1.5 microns, 2 microns," etc.

Re:Just so you know...

[GigsVT]

Speaking of SiS and ECS....

I just got in an ECS k7SEM with onboard everything, and a duron 950. All the onboard stuff is well supported in Linux. You had better have a recent Xserver to handle the onboard video though, the one that ships with Red Hat 7.2 works well (4.1.0). The sound card gets a little flaky under heavy processor load (sometimes XMMS won't be able to open the sound if it changes tracks while the processor is loaded heavily), but it sounds great.

So I got this setup working well. I ordered 6 more of them to build a MOSIX cluster with.
from www.mwave.com:
6-ECS K7SEM motherboards
6-950 Mhz Durons
1-16 port 10/100 switch

Total w/shipping: about $880

from www.sofistic.com:
6-128 meg Micron DIMMs PC133
6-el cheapo cases with 300 watt powersupplies

Total w/shipping: $337 (watch out they rape you on shipping, but their prices are so low it offsets it)

Anyway, so I am building a 6 node supercomputer for $1200. This is what a low end PC used to cost. Boy we have come a long way.

There will be some other costs, like there will need to be a hard disk somewhere for these things to boot from, but no other major costs.