New Durons in UK

[Methanoid]

Anyone got one or tried overclocking them? 1.4 and 1.6 Durons...

Me wants a cheap AMD Shuttle and Duron for my video capture PC...

[KVandal]

http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?threadid=4023

[Methanoid]

oooooooooo nice

[kamz]

wow that does look smart...the new AXIA of old perhaps?

[ibmike]

well see how they go weather there stable and that might be worth a shot what price are they ???

[Swafe]

cheap, 33 on ebuyer i think

whether thats inc vat or not not sure


but cheap either way, like durons are supposed to be that for 1.6 an all

[jon bda]

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=52134

[Sibu]

yea, but is it worth buying if your not intending to try and unlock the cache?

Or would it be safer just to buy a slightly more expensive barton 2500+

[Austin]

Just to reiterate my thoughts ...

Using less of the L2 cache (64K vs 256/512) 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 ...