AMD Thunderbird/Duron Investigation & Overclocking Discussion

Under Content Creation Winstone 2000 you can see that the Thunderbird, clock for clock, is faster than the older Athlon which we already knew. So if you're choosing between getting a lower clocked Thunderbird or a faster K75 Athlon the above chart should help you out a bit.

You can also see that the Duron at 600MHz is coming in around the same speed as the Athlon 600 and the Pentium III 600 on a BX platform. If you're not sure about the overclocking potential of the Duron (or whether or not you're even going to be able to overclock it) and you currently have something like a Pentium III 600E, you may want to stick with your current setup.