The Tech Zone has posted a review on AMD's Duron 1GHz processor

REMEMBER THE GIGAHERTZ race? You know, about a year and a half ago, when AMD and Intel were vying to be the first to release an x86 processor that ran at 1000MHz? AMD ended up winning that battle, releasing a 1GHz Athlon just a couple of days before Intel released the 1GHz Pentium III. Since then, the high end of the CPU world has gone crazy, with AMD ramping the Athlon up to 1.4GHz and Intel debuting its Pentium 4, currently topping the clock speed charts at 1.8GHz.

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