Hugh S. Myers wrote: >When you say Athlon, which chip are you talking of? AMD has a slew of >them... > >--hsm >P.s. for instance the last I heard (not current) the 64bit AMD chips were >called Opterons... > >
the opterons are the SERVER versions of the Athlon 64. The Athlon 64 (which he specifically mentioned) is the Athlon 64bit desktop version. Opteron 2XX models are for dual socket servers, and 8xx models are for 4 or 8 socket servers. There's also been an Opteron 1XX, which is indistinguishable from a particular high end Athlon 64 XP version (or something like that). AMD's version identification gets pretty confusing after that, with different versions of the "Athlon 64 3200+" coming out at different times, etc. To really narrow it down, you need to know the chip version (code names like San Diego, Venice, etc), the actual core clock speed, the cache size, and the fabrication version (1.3uM, 90nM, etc). _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
