Sorry, I should have shown more explicity where the quote starts and ends .... See below. Buchan Milne wrote: > > Arcana wrote: > > > As for the performance: the Duron outperforms the Celeron, so as a Celeron > > replacement, it absolutely boots Intel. However, don't expect it to perform > > as well as the Pentium III at a similar clock speed. The Athlon can't match > > Intel's PIII in some instances (usually dealing with floating-point and > > graphics) so the Duron, basically being the Athlon with a lot less L2 cache > > (64K as opposed to Athlon's 256K) won't be a PIII replacement. However, the > > cost of the Duron is probably a quarter of the PIII at an equivalent speed, > > so you could buy 4 Durons for 1 PIII :) > > > > See Tom's Hardware guide for an article that shows this is a very > antiquated myth (the fact that AMD chips lack FPU power). > > 3D Studio Max Benchmark > http://www2.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q4/001017/athlon-13.html > (Duron 800@900 beats Petium 3 1000 by 25%) > > Quote from Tom's Hardware: > http://www2.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q4/001017/athlon-03.html ==========start of quote============= > "Athlon outperforms Pentium III in scientific and floating-point > intensive applications. - FACT > > This fact is well known, but it gets easily forgotten. Athlon's FPU is > way superior to the FPU of Pentium III. It is expected that even Pentium > 4's FPU can't compete against Athlon's. Thus every software that > requires double-precision floating-point calculations will run 40-50% > faster on Athlon than on Pentium III. This difference can't even be > equalized with clock speed." =============end of quote============ > Since the Duron is more similar to the Athlon than the Celeron is to the > P3, the Duron still does better than the P3 at most FPU-intensive > applications (like the 3DSMax). > > Buchan > > -- > |--------------------------------------------------------------| > Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager > Cellphone +27824722231 > email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Centre for Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za > South Africas first satellite: http://sunsat.ee.sun.ac.za > Control Models http://www.control.co.za > |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- |--------------------------------------------------------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone +27824722231 email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Centre for Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za South Africas first satellite: http://sunsat.ee.sun.ac.za Control Models http://www.control.co.za |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------|
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