Difference between Athlon Thunderbird & Athlon (plain?)

[blclay23]

whats the difference between Athlon Thunderbird & Athlon (plain?) I'm really confused and need your help....

Mike

 

[Biggs]

1) Thunderbird uses Socket A and has on-die L2 cache
2) Classic uses Slot A and has off-die L2 cache

 

[Muerto]

What Biggs said.

 

[bacillus]

plus for comparible clockspeeds, the thunderbird is faster!

 

[A2KLAU]

And also the T-Bird is more easily overclocked. You don't need to open up the CPU casing and add a goldfinger device. Just stick it in and if it is locked do the pencil trick and bingo... Easy overclocking from the mobo!

Albert. (SKY)

 

[IamDavid]

Thanx poeple, I never knew the difference either.

 

[xtreme2k]

Tbird - 256KB L2 cache on die cache running at processor speed.
Athlon(original) - 512KB L2 cache off die running at 1/2 or 2/5 or 1/3 processor speed and has higher lantency

 

[formulav8]

They make the T-Bird in Slot A also.

 

[Davegod75]

t-bird slot a' are very rare and i think only go up too like 900mhz.