AMD Athlon Thunderbird 200/266 Bus (difference?)

[edm]

Looking at newegg.com I noticed the AMD 1.4GHz 266MHz are priced at $122, while the 1.3GHz 200MHz chips are $190, both retail w/fan. For some reason you'd think the 266MHz (GHz equal) would be faster, but looking at the price differences apparently not.

1) What's are the differences, and are the 200MHz CPU faster/better?

2) Do they both support PC2100 & PC133 RAM.

3) Will they work with the same motherboards.

Thanks

 

[Adul]

slower. 200 is the speed of the fsb, you want this number to be higher. Has for why it is selling for less then a 1.3, I have no idea.

has for memory, has long has your chipset supports sdram or ddr, then there should be no problem runing either cpu.

 

[mesonw]

The reason a slower cpu (or any hardware) can sell for more than a faster one is simply a case of supply and demand. Faster ones are easier to get hold of, hence cheaper. I've seen the same with hard drives (ATA100 drives cheaper than ATA66), graphics cards (gf3 cheaper than gf2u) blah blah blah...

 

[Megatomic]

mesonw is right. The deeper issue is that the 200MHz fsb chips are being phased out. The same thing happened with the Classic Athlons when the Thunderbirds came out.