AMD Duron Applebred vs. Athlon XP Thoroughbred

jmke · 7th October 2003, 22:23

Piotke pits the Athlon XP TbredB against the newly introduced Duron Applebred

Quote:

Recently AMD introduced its new durons. I bought one of them, the 1.6 ghz version. The most interesting part of this cpu is its core voltage, only 1.5 V.
This cpu begged to be compared with an Athlon XP, dlt3c (known for reaching speeds up to 2700Mhz!). Is the new Duron an equally good overclocker ? Maybe even better ? Find out in this review.

http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=106

[Bonbon] · 7th October 2003, 22:45

very well written review !
enjoyed reading it.

7th October 2003, 22:54

nice review,
I expected the difference to be a little bit bigger, turns out the cache isn't that important voor AMD

but why didn't you mod the duron applebred so the full cache was restored? Like they did @ Overclockers.com

jmke · 7th October 2003, 23:13

It wasn't his Applebred + CPU was gone before the mod was released

8th October 2003, 14:27

J have K7S5A motherboard from ECS and my duron 1600 works with no vmod on 166 FSB which gives 2000MHz. On this setting every benchmark works well and there are no lockups.
Sandra 2004 results: multimedia: integer 18380 (XP2600+ 19080), float: 21064 (XP2600+19334)

jmke · 8th October 2003, 14:51

that a pretty good bang-4-the-buck in my humble opinion

8th October 2003, 18:23

Quote:

Originally posted by jmke
It wasn't his Applebred + CPU was gone before the mod was released

i have it now and will test it with h20 and will try the mod

i'll post it here when it is finished

greetz

DUR0N · 8th October 2003, 19:25

Quote:

Originally posted by jmke
that a pretty good bang-4-the-buck in my humble opinion

that's an understatement

8th October 2003, 20:14

Can this CPU run in a SMP system???

DUR0N · 8th October 2003, 20:54

presumably
check the 2cpu.com forums for more SMP info

7th October 2003, 22:45	#2
[Bonbon] Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 692	very well written review ! enjoyed reading it. __________________ intelD820 (2*2.8), 1gb ram , 6600gt , lots of hdd

7th October 2003, 23:13	#4
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	It wasn't his Applebred + CPU was gone before the mod was released __________________

8th October 2003, 14:51	#6
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	that a pretty good bang-4-the-buck in my humble opinion __________________

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7th October 2003, 22:54	#3
the maniak Posts: n/a	nice review, I expected the difference to be a little bit bigger, turns out the cache isn't that important voor AMD but why didn't you mod the duron applebred so the full cache was restored? Like they did @ Overclockers.com

8th October 2003, 14:27	#5
Unregistered Posts: n/a	J have K7S5A motherboard from ECS and my duron 1600 works with no vmod on 166 FSB which gives 2000MHz. On this setting every benchmark works well and there are no lockups. Sandra 2004 results: multimedia: integer 18380 (XP2600+ 19080), float: 21064 (XP2600+19334)

8th October 2003, 20:14	#9
Unregistered Posts: n/a	Can this CPU run in a SMP system???

8th October 2003, 20:54	#10
DUR0N Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 1,543	presumably check the 2cpu.com forums for more SMP info