Duron 800 or P3 800

[mjdunn]

I know the price diff is huge but how far apart is the performance? I would love to see some benchmarks.

 

[Guest]

I've seen a duron 800Mhz beat a P3 933 easily

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[FUGGER]

Theifus is on crack.

Duron is to compete with celeron

P3 is beats duron

 

[Crashman]

It depends on how you test them, I've seen PIII's waist t-birds clock for clock in 3D-Mark 2000.

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[74merc]

yea, well remember, the celeron was made to compete with the K6 2s and it whupped the PII for awhile...
The Duron matches the PIII clock for clock in my experience, although I'm sure at higher clock speeds the L2 makes a difference, @ 700 they were about the same.

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[machow]

We also have to see whether you want to overclock the processor too.

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[DSutcliffe]

Honestly, the only place you will probably notice any difference at all is in the extra weight of your wallet if you go with the Duron.

Humans can't tell the difference between 80FPS and 75FPS in any game. Plus, even the lowly Celeron is waiting for the human to tell it what to do in most Windows applications.

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[priit]

You won't notice any difference in performance probably, duron is (overall) only slightly slower than P3. There are apps where Duron 700 kicks 1Ghz P3 and P3 is also way faster than Duron in some places. Celeron, even thought it should be duron's competitior, gets butt kicked really badly. You need about 1Ghz Celeron just to touch the performance of 700Mhz Duron...