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From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com>
To: "Aaron Hill" <hillaa@hotmail.com>, <cliff@raggedclown.net>
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Subject: Re: Athlon Processors?
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 07:54:12 -0800
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Jeremiah Gowdy
Network Administrator
Sherline Products

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Hill" <hillaa@hotmail.com>
To: <cliff@raggedclown.net>
Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 6:03 AM
Subject: Re: Athlon Processors?


> > > 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

Athlon K7 (classic) .25 micron 512k offdie
Athlon K75 (K7-2) .18 micron 512k offdie
Athlon Thunderbird .18 micron 256k ondie




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