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AthlonMB has posted their comparison of the two processor available from AMD, the Duron and Thunderbird.

What do we know right off the bat? The specs: The only difference between these tow processors is their amount of L2 cache. The Thunderbird has 256K and the Duron has only 64K. The prices: The CPUs used in this article are a Duron 700 MHz, priced at about $99.00; the Thunderbird 800 MHz runs the buyer about $183. So you can see that the Thunderbird processor is priced higher than its Duron counterpart, but is there a performance difference in the processors enough to validate the extra cost? That's what we are here to find out.
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