Thorton vs. Thoroughbred

[Yuniverse]

I just got one of the deals at the local Fry's.
ECS MB and AMD 2000+ CPU for $65 + tax.
I bought two combos and they gave me two different cores. Thorton and Thoroughbred. They're both
266FSB and pretty much same spec.

Which one would be better, if any?

thanks
Yuniverse

 

[mechBgon]

They're functionally 100% identical. The Thornton has more surface area for its wattage and therefore it might cool better and OC better, but you never know 'til... yeah. 😀

 

[OverVolt]

Thorton is really a Barton with half its L2 cache disabled, pretty sure theres a way to re-enable it but its tricky.

 

[Soulkeeper]

let us know how they compare if you are going to overclock

 

[valky]

They're both 266FSB and pretty much same spec

Thorton is a 333FSB with a CPU Core Size of 20% bigger than Tbred. It has the same .13u L2=256KB and its considered a Barton grade processor. The Tbred is a 266FSB Thoroughbred B and has an extra layer of copper interconnects to reduce interferance. Because you didnt give the OPN number to tell which chips you have I cant be sure but they do have differnt nominal volts and multipiers. So they are very close to the same thing but different and using them together should differ only in the size/type HSF they use..... 😀

 

[Yuniverse]

I'm waiting for the AMD price to drop before upgrading my good ol' T-bird 1 GHz.

I got this combo deal(AMD XP 2000+ AXDC 2000DUT and ECS k7vta3) from Frys so that i can put together couple of boxes when someone want me to build one for them.

I thought i'd try it on my box to see how it runs.

I left everything as it was and upped FSB to 166
With a pair of 256MB DDR 400 I had, I'm getting 2.07GHz. Isn't that 2500+ speed?

It's running pretty well... beyond my expectation. perhaps i'll just stick with this until the AMD 64 becomes more of a standard.
not bad for $70 after tax.

EDIT: btw, i used the thorton. I don't know how the T-bred would do... perhaps i'll try it out later, but i'm too tired as of now

 

[aka1nas]

The thorton is also 266FSB, ignore valky. You are running it at a higher FSB(which is fine as your RAM is rated for a 200Mhz FSB) and your board is capable of it anyway. I would double check that it is stable with memtest86 and prime95 and as long as it doesn't get any errors, consider it a sucessful overclock.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Yuniverse

With a pair of 256MB DDR 400 I had, I'm getting 2.07GHz. Isn't that 2500+ speed?

Nope, beyond 2500+. 2500+ is the same bus speed, but core speed of only 1.83GHz. The 2.07GHz at 333FSB is more of an XP 2800+ speed with the Barton and 512k cache. Since the Thorton has 256k cache like the Tbred, then your XP rating would be 2600+. Level up 200 "XP" points by enabling the cache on your Thorton at the same clock speed, heh.