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Difference between Athlon & Thunderbird

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redgiant

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What is the difference between Athlon and Thunderbird? I was looking at some prices and seems like Athlon 1 Ghz is more expensive than Thunderbird 1 Ghz.
 
thunderbird is a type of athlon. the thunderbird is the athlon that uses a socket A motherboard

athlon clasics use a slot A motherboard
 
actually i better clarify, when tbirds were first released amd did make some oem versions in the slot format, but they are kinda rare. and are not made anymore
 
Athlon - the official name

"Athlon" (aka Athlon classic, Athlon "A", etc.) - Slot-A Athlon with K7 and K75 core. Has 512KB of slower cache. You need the AMD750 or KX133 chipset motherboards.

"Thunderbird" Athlon (aka Athlon "B&quot😉 - Comes in Socket-A factor, but a very limited quantity comes in Slot-A that can be used with some AMD750 motherboards. Thunderbird Athlons come with 256KB of on-die L2 cache. They are generally faster than the "classic" Athlons. Use KT133, KM133 or KL133 motherboards for this CPU.

Newer "Thunderbird" Athlon (aka Athlon "C&quot😉 - Same as Athlon "B" but it's rated to use 266 MHz FSB, unlike Athlon "B", which uses 200 MHz FSB. Can be used with KT133, KM133, KL133, AMD760 motherboards at 200 MHz FSB, but it makes more sense to use it on KT133A, AMD760 or Ali MaGik motherboards at 266 MHz FSB with PC133 or PC2100 SDRAM.

Confused yet? 🙂
 
The athlon "classic" is in cartrige format(socket a) and has 512k of external cache runing at 1/2 2/5 or 1/3 of the full speed. These have been out of production for about a year. The athlon "thunderbird) has 256k of full speed cache on die and is in socket format(socket a) these are curently being manufactured.
 
The original Athlon was a slot based chip package.

The new Athlons (B and C) are Socket based. The "code name" for this CPU is Thunderbird.

The slot based Athlon is no longer manufactured, so this is the reason (among others) they are a bit more expensive.

EDIT: Damn, 6 replies to this thread in 3 minutes!
 
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