So I was at Fry's yesterday

[QueBert]

was looking at CPU's with my GF, I noticed (San Diego local) all the CPU tags were mismarked, they said MB instead of KB for cache size. The wonderful worker for that department wanted to help. So I ask him about the A-64, and the cache it has

"oh that chip has a 512 megabyte cache"
"ummm shouldn't that be kilobyte?"
"no no, this is a X2 Dual Core processor, it has more cache then the regular chip"

so out of boredom I ask him for any other cache info he has. He "thinks" it might be DDR2 cache. He wanted to argue with me that he was positive the cpu's all have 128-512 megabyte caches. he he he and he was the cpu expert (according to him) I know Fry's is pretty crappy, but that's really, really sad

 

[FoBoT]

you mean on labels, like store labels or on the chips themselves?

 

[SKORPI0]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
you mean on labels, like store labels or on the chips themselves?

Probably the store labels describing the product, Item# and price.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
you mean on labels, like store labels or on the chips themselves?

the fry's lables, on the big wall mount thing they keep the chips in. I dunno if this is just for the San Diego location with the typo, but that's a big damn typo. I was marveling at the Celerons with 256MB cache, Intel has come a long way with their budget line!

 

[kitkat22]

Wow, I wonder how he would have responded to the gigahertz question? I have a friend who was interested in upgrading his pentium IV early generation and was looking to get the ASUS 32X SLI board. I asked him what processor and RAM he was looking into and he responded he was going to essentially do a direct replacement of his current motherboard. I set him straight before he blew $250.

 

[MisterJackson]

Your mental prowess surpasses us all!