Athalon vs Duron?

[Guest]

Sorry, I'm fairly new in the world of computer hardware, so I'll be asking some pretty ignorant questions for the next few weeks.
Anyways, what's the difference between an Athalon processor and a Duron?

 

[Ncogneto]

athlon socketa (t-bird) l2 cache 256k full cpu clock
duron socket a l2 cahce 64k full cpu clock
athlon slot a l2 chache of 512 @ 2/5,1/3 or 1/2 cpu clock

all have 128k l1 cache

A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing!

 

[Guest]

you forgot that some oem slot a athlons are built with tbird cores so they have the same cache specs as the socket a version. the down side is that they only work in slot a boards that have the amd northbridge chip.

who is more foolish...
the fool, or the fool that takes his advice?

 

[Ncogneto]

no that would be a slot a t-bird

A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing!

 

[girish]

hi
duron is younger brother of athlon, just like celeron is to pentium-iii

functionally they are similar, but duron has somewhat smaller second level cache, 64k against 256k/512k of athlon.
just like celeron has 128k against p3's 256/512k. but celeron also is inferior to p3 on speed front - it has only 66 MHz bus while P3 has 100 MHz.

girish