If I chose a KT133A board, but did not choose one with Athlon XP support, which older cpu would be better at games? The Duron Morgan 1.3GHz had both 3Dnow and SSE and the Athlon T-Bird 1400C had a faster 266fsb but no SSE, only 3Dnow.
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wrote:If I chose a KT133A board, but did not choose one with Athlon XP support, which older cpu would be better at games? The Duron Morgan 1.3GHz had both 3Dnow and SSE and the Athlon T-Bird 1400C had a faster 266fsb but no SSE, only 3Dnow.
i'll go with duron, for following reasons:
1. unlike 3dnow, sse is rather useful in many cases.
2. with pc133 sdram, both cpus are bottlenecked, so 200 and 266 fsb doesn't make that much difference.
3. duron has less cache(192kb total versus 384kb), but again that impact is not so huge.
4. morgan has less heat to worry about than the tbird.