Athlon Slot vs Athlon Socket ???

[JasonBr]

Is there any performace difference between the AMD Slot A and Socket A chips?

Thanks

 

[Rigoletto]

Well, there was, but OEMs are building Thunderbird SlotA systems. But it is harder to overclock the slot processors.
Older Athlons like mine have CPU cache at 1/2, 2/5 or 1/3 the core CPU speed, which was hindering it by say 5% compared to the new on-die cache of thunderbirds.

 

[JasonBr]

So a 1 ghz SlotA is still a TBird?

 

[Zorba]

A 1GHZ T-Bird Slot-A is a T-Bird, if it doesn't say T-Bird it is probably a classic Athlon.

But Slot-A is dead for everyone besides OEMs.

 

[dkozloski]

If you have a slotA Tbird 800 or above you are limited to Irongate chipset motherboards. My SlotA Tbird 900/1100 works great in a K7M board but won't get off the ground with a KA7-100.

 

[GT1999]

Socket-A with the KT133 chipset is the way to go. If you want, get a Duron 700 or so, and when you get more money, drop a 1.2GHz T-Bird in there when the prices come down even more.

Slot-A (and Classic Athlons) is pretty much dead in terms of the new market.