AMD Duron 850: Getting ready for the battle

In our final gaming benchmark the Duron 850 isn't scaling as well as it has been throughout the earlier half of this review.  This can be attributed to Expendable's nature as a benchmark, one that is more memory bandwidth intensive than it is dependent on raw CPU power. 

Believe it or not, but there are some cases in which a faster CPU won't result in a tremendous increase in performance.  It's all about identifying performance bottlenecks in your system and doing your best to upgrade as to eliminate them.

The Duron remains untouchable as the value processor of choice for all professional OpenGL applications.  For the price, the Duron is unbeatable, however those that are able to budget for it will want to go with the Athlon since the added L2 cache can definitely come in handy.