Duron 2000 Vs. Intel 2

[mejiaks]

I am now facing a desition of buying a new computer for my wife and my 4-years-old son.

The issue here is have to computer with same configuration but one diference, one is a amd duron 2000 and the other one it's a celeron 1.8GHz the question:

how can I know the diferences between the two of them? not the diferences in prices but speed and performance.

does any body of you have any experience with this?

 

[cdogg]

First of all, are you sure there's a Duron 2000? I do know of a Duron 1.6GHz, but I've never actually seen one with the 2000+ rating.

Anyway, the Durons in the past were typically much faster than their Celeron counterparts when running at the same speed. Even a Duron that was 100MHz slower could outperform many of the older Celerons. This was mainly due to faster FSB (frontside bus) speeds and a larger L1 and L2 cache total.

Today, it's not quite so. The newer Celerons are based on the Williamette P4 core with the faster 400MHz FSB (versus the older 133MHz bus it used to have). The Duron still has the edge in cache (128Kb L1, 64Kb L2), but the Celeron has definitely closed some ground.

I would say the two are probably pretty equal. Since the fastest Durons are based on the old Athlon architecture, I would bet that they run hotter and are already being stressed to the max. If those were my only speed choices, I would probably go Celeron.

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[Miker75]

If it's an AMD Athlon XP 2000 that you are talking about, that should easily beat any Celeron that's 2.0 (hell I'd guess it'd even beat a 2.4Ghz Celeron!).

 

[paparazi]

If I hadn't seen this review I would have probabley have a similar opinion to cdogg and Miker75 but there is no contest, the Duron is a far higher performing CPU than the Celeron, especially the two you are comparing.
Read this:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1927&p=18

Yes I was suprised as well.
Martin

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[mejiaks]

I found out that amd cpu's are way better than celerons and i also found out that the Duron 2000 is kind of a rip off of the dealear here in my country since this procesor is soldered to the motherborad so you wn't be able to replace it.

thks a lot

 

[paparazi]

Not a ripoff, just a cheap budget ECS K7SOM motherboard?? at a guess!!
Available in all countries, not just yours and certainly nothing specifically to do with your dealer.
ECS choose to adopt AMD's own naming system and because the Duron is AMD's own budget offering they compare it's performance to Intels Celron ( also a budget CPU) and as Celerons are such poor performers, a Duron 1400 can easily outperform a Cely 2000, infact the Duron 1400 is closer to the Celeron 2.4.
This kind of motherboard is perfectly acceptable for 90% of PC users who during the life of there PC never choose to upgrade anything apart from maybe more memory, then after it's 3 year cycle, throw it away and buy another one.
Martin


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