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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (122447)8/18/2000 9:23:55 AM
From: stribe30  Read Replies (2) of 1583147
 
Ted raved about the Duron:

"It looks like I am replacing my Athlon with a 700 MHz Duron and a new motherboard. The owner of the screwdriver shop that I go to said he has no problem getting Durons and motherboards but its the T-bird that he is having problems with. I didn't have time to ask more but will when I see him. I can't believe how cheap the Duron is."

You would be raving even more if you had some hardware techie geek hiding inside that investor persona of yours and decided to overclock the Duron :) 600 Durons from all accounts are fairly easy to get to 800, and some of the Overclock sites have managed to get them to 900-950 MHZ.. not bad for a retail price of around 70$ US.

Now.. of course.. you'd need to buy a MB with multiplier changing capability -- Asus A7V have some models with multiplier jumpers, some without..(generally the ones without the Ac97 integrated sound in them seem to have the jumpers for it) and the new Abit KT7 model allows you to do it from the CMOS. Then you'd have to hope your Duron wasnt clock-locked.. if it was.. you'd have to be brave enough to do some uh.. simple pencil marking on the CPU to connect the bridges and re-enable clock multiplier..:)

Myself.. I think I'll wait for a yr til my warranty expires before I attempt it. (I have a locked CPU)

OH.. go to www.insanehardware.com for Asus A7V Multiplier settings if you do have that board with those multiplier settings on it and you want the values.
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