Athlon, Duron questions

I have a question for anyone that can help me. I'm researching for a new processor, and leaning to most notably towards a AMD Athlon or Duron 900. I was just wondering whats the major difference in these two. From what I see they are both overclockable, but I think the Athlon is faster. Is this so?

My other question is that I heard of a new IDE cable, something like Ultra DMA or something like that. Can they be used for regular IDE devices, or do you need a motherboard with onboard RAID?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Klyde

The difference bewtween the two is that that the Athlon comes with 256KB of onboard fullspeed L2 cache memory, while the duron only has 64KB onboard. If you look at some benchmarks, this seems to make a good performance impact in many high powered applications. But if your needs are meager and your low on cash, a Duron can simply not be beaten.

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The athlon is much faster than the duron, and more expencive too. It's like the pentium and the celeron, the celeron is the low money prossesor like the duron, and the pentium is the high performance processor like the athlon.
So go for an athlon it's much better.

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t-bird 900 is $110, duron 900 is $95. the fifteen bucks is worth the cache.

www.pricewatch.com

At the core of every system: "I'm sorry dave, i'm afraid i can't do that."

hey man,

I went to Pacific mall but Canada computers was out
of the 1ghz Athlon with the AXIA stepping.. they
only the 1.1 which they wanted like $300 for.. so
I said forget that and went over to Sunny Computers
and got 1Ghz AVIA athlon for like $250.. I recommended
going there from now on, those guys at Canada computers
snub me like nothing else.

Cheers

whats some good canadian places to shop online? I can't find too many.

There is Netlink.

http://www.ncix.com

Not too sure of others. I also check A-Power (http://www.a-power.com) but they are harder to order from. Mainly I check them because Netlink will match their prices.

Wayne