January 14th, 2003, 08:27 PM
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| Duron identified as Athlon?
Months ago I bought two Duron1200s
One went into the Wife's new PC, the other was kept as a spare.
This week, while upgrading our Son's PC, I replaced his Duron750 with the spare 1200.
Windows & SiSoft Sandra ID the CPU as an Athlon1200.
The Wife's is properly identified as a Duron1200
I paid no particular attention to the writing on the CPU chip. The curiosity was killing me, so I removed the HS/fan, only to find that the CPU is a Duron.
Has anyone else encountered the phenomenon of a Duron masquerading as an Athlon?
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January 14th, 2003, 08:44 PM
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Hmm... 1st thing that comes to mind is... "What the???"
Are they using the same motherboard? Perhaps your sons PC has a wierd motherboard & it isn't identifying the CPU correctly....
Have you tried looking in other apps? e.g. cpu-z or wcupid?
What does windows show? e.g. right click on my computer & choose properties...
What does direct X show? E.g. start/run type in dxdiag
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January 14th, 2003, 09:02 PM
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They're not really different, the Duron is an Athlon with less and slower cache.
Maybe the programmers didn't bother to differentiate them, or the board identifies it as such.
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January 14th, 2003, 09:08 PM
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J man,
Windows properties shows it as an Athlon1200.
The Mobos are both recent Biostars, but of different models
If it were not for the pain involved, I would swap the CPUs to find out what is going on | |
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January 14th, 2003, 09:09 PM
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As Jay suggested, check it out with cpu-z. You need to access the core's cpuid function to correctly determine its type. If is still says Athlon, check the cache sizes. Only a true Athlon features 256KB L2.
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January 15th, 2003, 02:10 AM
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CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
That was also what i meant to say, check the cache size....
And no, the cache isn't "slower", cache on all modern althons & durons run at full processor speed, e.g. For 1Ghz Athlon & 1Ghz Duron, both's cache runs at 1Ghz. Just that the duron only has half as much as the Athlons.
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January 15th, 2003, 02:16 AM
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January 15th, 2003, 02:20 AM
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CPU-Z identifies it as an Athlon.
CPU-Z shows L2 cache 64kb, so it is indeed a Duron.
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January 15th, 2003, 02:27 AM
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If it's identifying the speed,and cache correctly,I don't think I would worry about it much 
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January 15th, 2003, 02:52 AM
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I'm not at all concerned with the outcome, & shall give it no more effort, except for the occasional rant. | |
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