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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:13:16 -1000 (HST)
From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
To: "Kulraj Gurm (bosa.ca account)" <kulraj@bosa.ca>
Cc: Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: the AMD factor in FreeBSD
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Kulraj Gurm (bosa.ca account) wrote:

> Something we did several months ago :
>
> FreeBSD make buildworld 4.2 (cvsup)
> Virtually identical machines, three different CPU's
> Duron 700    66min
> PIII 700        65min
> Athlon 700    55min
>
> The surprising factor to me was not that the Athlon was easily the fastest
> at this task (I expected that), but that the Duron performed so
> exceptionally well compared to the PIII which at the time was three times
> the cost!
>
> Regards,
>
> Kulraj

	That's true... I sure like to see where the Celeron fits in.. a
Celeron 2 700 or a Celeron II 566@850.


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> > > I don't know if the DURON is faster when overclocked, I personally stay
> > away from
> > > overclocking, I don't need it.
> >
> > I doubt if the Duron is faster overclocked or underclocked.  It's just the
> > Thunderbird with less cache.  Less cache != faster (at the same cache
> speed)
> > as far as I've ever known.
> >
> > > The only differences between the Athlon and the Duron is on chip cache,
> > and speeds
> > > of the front side bus, if I am not mistaken.
> > >
> > > Athlons have larger L2 Cache I believe than the Durons,
> >
> > That is the only difference.
> >
> > > and are available with up to a 200MHZ bus.
> >
> > They both have a 200mhz bus.  Not up to, but 200mhz.
> >
> > The FSB is 100 or 133 in both. (Not talking about DDR and new boards)
> >
> > Just say it this way, "Duron is a Thunderbird with less cache".
> >
> >
> >
> >
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