"Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote:
>
> "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
> >
> > Vic wrote:
> > >
> > > Just curious
> > >
> > > I use an AMD K6-3 400.
> > >
> > > I know this is an older slower chip, but
> > > it appears to run decently with 7.0-2.
> > > Is K6-3 a cousin to the Pentium or Pentium3?
> > >
> > > Is the Athlon a totally new architecture or
> > > more related to the K6-3?
> > >
> > The Athlon is a totally new arch. the K6-2 was related to PII
> > and I suspec the K6-3 is related to the PIII's although the K6's
> > still used socket-7's. The Athlon uses their own propritary Slot A
> > technology (bad AMD 8-)) I have several K6-2-300's around and they
> > run very well with 7.0 and 7.1 and my Athlon (K7) runs like a scaled
> > dog.
>
> The K6-3 is a kissing cousin of the K6-2. The only diff is that
> on the K6-3, the L1 cache runs at processor speed, whereas on
> K6-2, the L1 is slower.
>
Tanks, I didn't know dat...
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Joseph S Gardner
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