Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:30:40 -0700 From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com> To: "Sean Peck" <seanp@loudcloud.com>, "Vincent Poy" <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> Cc: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>, <lplist@closedsrc.org>, <kris@obsecurity.org>, <mwlist@lanfear.com>, <freebsd@sysmach.com?>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: the AMD factor in FreeBSD Message-ID: <000f01c0c917$fd6465e0$015778d8@sherline.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104191104240.4840-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> <3ADF58E1.3660FD8E@loudcloud.com>
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> I don't know if the DURON is faster when overclocked, I personally stay away from > overclocking, I don't need it. I doubt if the Duron is faster overclocked or underclocked. It's just the Thunderbird with less cache. Less cache != faster (at the same cache speed) as far as I've ever known. > The only differences between the Athlon and the Duron is on chip cache, and speeds > of the front side bus, if I am not mistaken. > > Athlons have larger L2 Cache I believe than the Durons, That is the only difference. > and are available with up to a 200MHZ bus. They both have a 200mhz bus. Not up to, but 200mhz. The FSB is 100 or 133 in both. (Not talking about DDR and new boards) Just say it this way, "Duron is a Thunderbird with less cache". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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