Dan´s Data has posted up a review on AMD´s Duron CPU and the MSI-6330 motherboard. Here a clip:
AMD´s new Duron is a cut-down Athlon, just as the Celeron 2 is a cut-down P-III, but it´s not as cut-down as the Celeron. For a start, it runs from the same super-fast processor bus.Read more
Athlons have a 100MHz FSB speed - that´s how fast the motherboard chipset talks to other components on the board, including the RAM, by default. But that clock speed´s doubled for CPU-to-chipset communication purposes, for a 200MHz processor bus.
The Duron uses this same bus specification. It´s bottlenecked by RAM speed, so a Duron doesn´t actually get three times the real world data transfer bandwidth of a Celeron, but the extra speed certainly doesn´t hurt.
