AMD Duron, how rare?

[Silenced]

I just found a AMD Duron processor in my dads PC, I wondered how rare they are.

 

[dangerstat]

Lol not very rare at all

 

[Lightnix]

Since they were AMD's equivalent of a Celeron until Sempron came out I doubt that they are particularly rare to be honest.

 

[Tute]

Yeah, they weren't bad CPUs at the time. Better than Celeron.

 

[milkinc13]

not hard 2 be better than celeron now is it?

 

[Mattus]

Common as muck. Just old

 

[Lightnix]

Yeah, they weren't bad CPUs at the time. Better than Celeron.

Depends on the Celeron really, the Tualatin (Pentium 3, 256KB cache) based Celerons weren't too bad during their time, if you ignore the need for a 'revised' socket 370. Of course if you're talking about those epic fail P4 based Willamette-128 Celerons I'm obliged to agree.

 

[Tute]

I remember putting Half-Life on the PCs at school. There were two in the corner, one Duron 900MHz and the other was Celeron powered, something like 800MHz.

The Celeron was absolutely dog slow, admittedly it had half the RAM of the Duron, but it was very poor compared.

 

[deusexlumina]

they are pretty common, go for around a quid on the bay, some were supposed to be good clockers though at the time

 

[dante6491]

Have a 1.1Ghz in my garage at the moment.

 

[Mr-White]

i got a duron 750 sitting next to me

MW

 

[ian|Squared²]

i got a duron 1500 right here on my desk!
doing nothing but my google calendar and F@H using synergy to an old CRT

 

[Lightnix]

I remember putting Half-Life on the PCs at school. There were two in the corner, one Duron 900MHz and the other was Celeron powered, something like 800MHz.

The Celeron was absolutely dog slow, admittedly it had half the RAM of the Duron, but it was very poor compared.

Again, depends on the Celeron in question. During the Pentium III and early Pentium IV era there were several based on entirely different cores going at once. The Tualatin celerons (clocked from 1-1.4GHz) were significantly faster than the older coppermine based celerons on a clock-for clock basis because they had 256KB of L2 cache like the full Coppermine Pentium III's, and the older coppermine core had a higher L2 cache latency.

It's weird because for each Intel generation there seems to be a really terrible celeron and a much better one. You can see examples of that from very recently; single core Celerons and the more recent dual core celerons, going back a generation there were two types of Celeron D - one based on a Prescott core with only 256kb of cache, and a better overclocking, generally faster 65nm Cedar Mill Celeron D with 512kb of cache - going way back there's the Celeron 300 and the celeron 300a.

 

[mollymoo]

I remember being really chuffed when I bought my 850 and a geforce 2 card aswell it was an awesome machine

 

[Beerbaron]

i got a duron 750 sitting next to me

MW

i think its time for an upgrade then

 

[Mr-White]

i think its time for an upgrade then

that was my upgrade

MW

 

[spleenharvester]

We have durons at school. We don't like them.

 

[Alex74]

still have my duron 1200 at home.. still runs very well.. here's to well made parts

Or for those who dont like theirs so much,

 

[alex24]

I have 3 or 4 durons and some athlon socket A CPUs hanging around with the rest of my PC junk.

Used a 900MHz for several years for work/internet and some games (like half life) etc. Actually coped very well, for their cost they weren't bad.

 

[Justintime]

Made lots of cash around the Duron 800, very nippy in its day and was my bread and butter when doing a school job of 50 pcs one year, coupled with 512Mb and an A7V pro, deskstar 40Gb, it was bloody quick