----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 8:59 AM Subject: Re: [expert] AMD Athlon Chips > First of all, the names are different. The socket A is an Athlon, which has > an off-die L2 cache. The slot A is a Thunderbird and its L2 is on-die. > > -Chris > Ummm... You have it backwards.... The Slot A is the Athlon.. It has 512k of L2 cache separate from the CPU die Socket A is the Athlon Thunderbird with 256k of L2 cache on the CPU die. There is also the Duron, which is the economy version of the Thunderbird. Its Socket A also, but only has 64k of L2 cache on the CPU die. Darin -
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