Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 07:54:12 -0800 From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com> To: "Aaron Hill" <hillaa@hotmail.com>, <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Athlon Processors? Message-ID: <000d01c07a54$69490ad0$aa240018@cx443070b> References: <F61TIrZ2uZBvFzLNfWd00001ba5@hotmail.com>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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