Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Caleb Sawtell wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 05:41, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> >
> > Seemed nice and smooth to me few jitters but hey games are playable and
> > it looks decent :D
>
> Yes, the chrome spaceship does it for me! very nice...that and the nice
> 'facescape'... :-)
>
> >>You can compile for your arch too, with the included makefile, and I've
> >>noticed that I get better results using k7, instead of vanilla i386, on
> >>my AthlonXP...
> >
> > why not athlonxp??
>
> "K7" and "AthlonXP/Duron" are one and the same architecture...you will
> often see motherboards for AthlonXP/Duron labelled similar to mine,
> which is a K7VM4...

There are some minor differences with the CPU core. For example the earlier 
Durons are based on the origional Athlon core rather than the AthlonXP core. 
The AthlonXP's had sse support while the standard Athlons didn't. So the 
early Durons (1GHz or lower "I think"!) lack sse while the later ones based 
on the Athlon XP should have it I think 1.4GHz+ I'm not sure about the 
Duron's between 1 and 1.4 Ghz.
Not that really makes a massive difference except that sse can be enabled on 
the AthlonXP based chips.


chad

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