athlon 900

Can someone give me a quick resume of the differences amongst athlon 900,duron 900 and thunderbird 900. I am looking at an advertised athlon 900 system complete at $800 and am wondering if this is a good price. I currently have a pentium III 450mhz. should I be satisfied with what I have currently or is the 900 system a good step up?

The athlon is the classic athlon with 512k off die cache running at 1/3 processor speed(or 1/2 cant recall)
The tbird is the athlon with on die cache, it is about 10% faster than the classic athlon clock for clock.

The duron is the budget athlon, similar to a celeron in theory, it outperforms the celeron very handily but loses to both its bigger brothers, it is ultra cheap however.



~Matisaro~
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I mainly use the computer for e-mail, internet research and a few games, not serious games like Quake III. I just like to own a reasonabley up to date fairly fast computer when I am jumping around the net from site to site. I have built a few in the past,but am feeling lazy at this point of life.

If you regard Q3 as the kind of game that taxes your system, you could probably get along fine with a 486.

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