On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:56:24AM -0700, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Bob Willcox wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 05:01:16PM -0700, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote:
> > > On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Linh Pham wrote:
> > >
> > > > Does anyone know if the boxed AMD processors that they are including the
> > > > new Thunderbird varieties?
> > >
> > > Almost definitely not, since the Thunderbird motherboards are a very
> > > scarce commodity at the moment.
> >
> > What has changed with the Thunderbird motherboards?
>
> They've gone back to a socket instead of a slot-A. Of course, it's
> socket-A, which is different than anything that has come before it, so
> no preexisting motherboards will work.
Ahh, that change. All of my Athlon MBs and CPUs (including thunderbird)
are slot-A. I haven't even seen any socket-A MBs or CPUs yet.
FWI, Slot-A thunderbird CPUs are available in the OEM channels (which is
what I have), and they work just fine (for me) in Slot-A MBs.
Bob
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