AMD Duron

Even before looking at the benchmarks we know that the Duron will have an easy time with the Celeron because of the fact that it still uses the 100MHz DDR (effectively 200MHz) EV6 front side bus while the Celeron is limited to its 66MHz FSB.  Only when overclocked to the 100MHz FSB can the Celeron stand a chance against the Duron because the CPU is so clearly limited by its FSB as we demonstrated in our Celeron review. 

The 462 pins of the Duron

As we mentioned earlier, the Duron will be a Socket-A part but unlike the Thunderbird it will not be manufactured as a Slot-A part as well.  Any motherboard that the Thunderbird will work in (Socket-A) the Duron will work in as well.  Currently there are only two chipsets available that support the Duron/Thunderbird, the AMD 750 and the VIA KT133.

Thunderbird/Duron's Socket-A

Pentium III/Celeron's Socket-370

On the topic of overclocking, the Duron is clock locked just like the Thunderbird.  While there have been rumors of ways to get around the clock lock protection nothing has been confirmed yet. 

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