Well... yes, but I'm *dying* to get my hands on a dual-processor
Thunderbird motherboard; does anyone know if/when the SMP chipset is
actually going to go into production? I know they've demo'd it, so it's
not entirely vaporware, but I don't consider it "real" until I can by it.
(And even then, I suppose Linux support will be a month or three behind.)
-Ken
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> > Does anyone know what the difference between the Athlon and the Athlon
> > "Thunderbird" chips are?
>
> The original Athlon chips ran the onboard cache RAM at half of the core
> clock speed, which caused a not insignificant performance hit. The
> "Thunderbird" chips run the onboard cache at core clock. "Thunderbird" is
> technically just a codename. AMD calls it the "Athlon processor with
> performance enhancing cache", which is why everyone still uses the codename.
> :-)
>
> > I believe that the Duron is the Athlon with smaller cache ...
>
> Yup. Half the cache, although it still runs at core clock, IIRC.
> Supposedly, the Duron is still SMP capable, although I don't know if anyone
> has verified this. All in all, AMD seems poises to really take over the CPU
> market. Their processors are faster, cheaper, and more reliable than Intel's
> offerings. The only thing Intel has going for them at this point is the brand
> name, and with their recent product quality problems, that may start to lose
> its shine.
>
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