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duron or athlon
Name: nullvar Date: April 6, 2004 at 00:45:08 Pacific OS: archlinux 0.6 CPU/Ram: athlon 1.4/512
Comment:
Hey, I've got an athlon t=bird 1.4 and have access to a duron 1.6. I was wondering if the newer duron might be any better than my current athlon. Tried googling and didn't get much. Any suggestions would be nice.
You may be able to unlock the L2 cache & convert the Duron into an Athlon XP...here's a clip:
"the Duron processors 1.60GHz with 266MHz EV-6 FSB and functional 256KB L2 performs as fast as the AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1600MHz, 266MHz FSB) chips that have 256KB of L2 by default"
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