From: Ronny B (fvacuum at domain yahoo.com)
Date: Tue 18 Sep 2001 - 19:53:11 IST
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:31:17PM +0200, Deim Agoston wrote:
> I have to choose between Duron and Celeron II. Which
I went from K6-2 450 to Duron 750, and the difference was very much
worth the motherboard swap-out etc. There were wintendo operations that
tripled in speed, like various Norton checks and pure memory & CPU based
operations rock.
Don't run it without a heatsink and fan, though; an aquaintance melted
his Athlon in 4 seconds. Silly foo.
> are the experiences. My main purpose with the new machine
> is developing. But sometimes I want to use Gimp or
> Tuxracer.
I have yet to try Tuxracer, but I'm using the GIMP between coding
sessions a lot now; nothing to complain about :)
(I do have 256MB of memory, though - but I have yet to see it actually
used)
I dunno much about current Celerons, but I think I've read several
places that they've got less speed per punt..
(I actually use my computer for things like mp3/DivX encoding a lot,
too. I get near realtime compression with DivX, and about twice realtime
speed on mp3 with high quality/VB/high bitrate. I'm ripping all my own
CDs to save the tedious undertaking of getting up ;)
-- O-RB, happy Duron user
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