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    1.6ghz Duron Overclocking

    I've just been reading an interesting Thread over on CPU City's Forums about the new 1.6ghz Durons... Overclocked to 2536mhz on Air! Then they modded it, unlocking the 256kb L2 Cache...

    Seems like they could be the next big thing, alongside the Barton 2500's!

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    Using less of the L2 cache should enable them to run a little cooler and achieve higher clock speeds too. However going on the classic Duron days there's likely to be a 10% speed diff between an AthlonXP and a Duron, 15% between the Duron and a Barton. I wouldn't expect many Durons would do 2.5ghz or even 2.3ghz TBH. Even at 2.5ghz the Duron with 64k L2 would be on par in speed terms with a 2.25ghz TbredB or 2.15ghz Barton. At 2.3ghz it would be on par with 2.07ghz Tbred or 2.00ghz Barton. Of course there is a chance of enabling all 256k L2 cache on these new Durons but I bet VERY few will do it successfully (< 10%?) and even then it would probably negate the higher clock speeds. With TbredB starting under £40 and Barton for under £70 it's hard to think why you'd risk it really ...

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    But, at around half the price of a Barton... not bad

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    Hmm, been a while since I looked at pi fast results - but isnt 62 secs worse than 2.2 ghz 400fsb TbirdB results?

    I'ed say buying a cheap AthlonXP is still going to give you the better overclock.
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    are the new durons 200fsb?

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    266, i think amd are evil locking the 256 aay, why dont they enable it and call it duron extreme or something, and add another fiver to the price
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    just a waste having cache and not using it
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    Originally posted by Swafeman
    just a waste having cache and not using it
    erm... "But some/alot of the chips that were modded back to 256k L2 cache became unstable! Thus showing that they were Duron'd due to flaky cache at the desired clock speeds!"

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    yup, recycling the duff cores and getting something for them rather than dumping them in a bin somewhere
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    bah, forgot abut that bit

    edit : 2.6ghz (1ghz overclock) duff cores??
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    Originally posted by Swafeman
    2.6ghz (1ghz overclock) duff cores??
    My thoughts too dude, I'm thinking for around £30, for say, some 2.3ghz action aint too bad at all! And if it can run that stable, with the 256k L2 cache unlocked too... a bargain IMO!

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    imagine with a vap and more volts, the one got to 2700, it would easy hit 3ghz in a promie, if you got a good one as well and could unlock it with no flakyness, intel, pwned
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    Hmm, sounds nice
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    being able to go to 2.5 on air at that price...that's gotta be good right!?

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    I've always liked duron's, my first 650MHz gave me an overclock of 1.1GHz.

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    u mean it clocked to 1.1ghz not it overclocked to 1.75ghz

    look very nice indeed!

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