>From: DaZZa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, George Vieira wrote:
>
>> they are short on pentium III 700 Mhz CPUs and would I like
>an AMD Duron or
>> Athlon instead?
>
>Go the Athlon - the Duron is AMD's version of the Celeron - I.E. it's a
>little short on things a server needs, like FPU performance.
Nah - the Duron has the same core as the Athlon and will kick a P3 on raw
FPU performance. The Athlon/Duron core has a far superior FPU and Integer
pipeline than anything available from Intel at the moment.
Tom's hardware is a very good site to look at.
John Wiltshire
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