From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 8 22: 4: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f61.law6.hotmail.com [216.32.241.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE1EF37B402 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 22:03:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 22:03:50 -0800 Received: from 165.228.128.11 by lw6fd.law6.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 09 Jan 2001 06:03:50 GMT X-Originating-IP: [165.228.128.11] From: "Aaron Hill" To: cliff@raggedclown.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Athlon Processors? Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 06:03:50 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Jan 2001 06:03:50.0532 (UTC) FILETIME=[EFEE9440:01C07A01] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Yes many people do. I run FreeBSD 4.2 on my workstation with this >config... > > > > Athlon Classic 700Mhz > > Epox 7KXA (first with the VIA 133 chipset) > > 128MB 133Mhz RAM > > 32MB Matrox G400 MAX > > 20GB IBM IDE ATA66 > > >Noted here too :) .. but I have never seen the word 'classic' >used for Athlon processors ? What other name may it have ? Ah, OK. As you may know the Athlon has gone through a few revisions since being released. Without getting into the numbers, which I don't remember anyway, the CPU die size has been reduced, the L2 cache has been moved on-die with the CPU and the motherboard connector has changed. So by saying Athlon Classic I mean I have the a first revision Athlon. That literally means it's die size is 25 micron, the L2 cache is not on die and it uses the Slot A connector. That's not to say my CPU ain't good, just that the latest Athlons are better. ;-) Aaron _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message