Duron or Pentium III

[Dangman]

I recently got my hands on two old PCs, a Duron and a Pentium III.

Now I want to give one of these two PCs to my ten year old cousin for schoolwork and flash gaming. I want to give him the faster of the two PC but I don't really know which one is the fastest.

Specs:
AMD PC
1.1 Ghz Duron (Morgan Core)
512MB PC100 Ram

Intel PC
866Mhz Pentium III (Coppermine Core)
512 PC133 Ram

Obviously the Duron has more CPU power but the slower ram speed coupled with the small (64KB) onboard L2 cache leaves me a bit worried.

So which one should I give my cousin?

 

[darkeen]

My money is on the p3 (yes that is a guess based on nothing).

 

[Jason711]

uh, that duron will smoke the p3.

 

[MrkXCeL]

those durons were excellent, I think in gaming they were pretty much equal or better than PIIIs if you were to clock them equally

 

[sharkapult]

I'd take a Duron over a pentium at the same speeds (unless it was a Tualatin...then I might rethink my position...but defintely over a Coppermine); but given the 200mhz clock advantage, I'd give him that.

 

[Dangman]

The Durons have it. Thanks for the advice, guys.

 

[Sir_Loin]

uh, that duron will smoke the p3.

Yes, and the mobo probably supports higher than pc100 too.....check specs to verify, you may be a winner on all fronts.