Russian techies turn a Duron into an Athlon
RUSSIAN HARDWARE SITE, OverClockers.ru seems to have succeeded in taking an AMD Duron procesor and fiddling with it in order to turn it into an Athlon-alike.
They say that an L2 bridge present on the Duron processor is not locked. If you lock it again, they suggest, you enable the L2 cache of 256KB.
They report that some Durons will crash with the 256KB of L2 cache enabled but thay got at least one working and overclocked it.
They reckon a 1.60GHz Duron with 266MHz EV-6 FSB and functional 256KB L2 performs as fast as an AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1600MHz, 266MHz FSB).
