What is the difference in these??

yop

Lads

What is the difference between these 2?

Cheers


Athlon XP 1600+ (1.4GHz Palomino) 266MHz FSB


1.40GHz (266fsb) AMD Athlon SoA CPU

Scruff

quite a difference really.
The 1.40GHz (266fsb) AMD Athlon SoA is based on the "Thuderbird" core.


from tomshardware article

AthlonXP does indeed offer 3-7% more performance per clock than previous desktop-Athlons based on the "Thunderbird"-core, because it is based on the new "Palomino"-core that we already know from AMD's multi-processor offering AthlonMP and the Mobile Athlon4 processors.

I'll list Palomino's added features over Thunderbird once more:

New design to reduce power consumption over Thunderbird core by 20%
Implementation of the full Intel SSE instruction set. The SSE processor flag is set (if the motherboard BIOS supports Palomino) so that software can recognize AthlonMP as a SSE-capable processor. AMD calls its SSE-implementation '3Dnow! Professional'.
Hardware auto data pre-fetching unit
L1 Data TLB (Translation Look-Aside Buffer) was increased from 32 to 40 entries, the architecture of the data and instruction L1 and L2 TLBs was made exclusive and TLB-entries can be written speculatively.
Implementation of a thermal diode to monitor processor temperature

Saruman

Was just about to reply but but Scruff got there first so yeah what he said!

yop

Thanks lads

If my board takes the Thunderbird, off the top of your head, do u reckon it will take the Palomino?

strat

ods are that it will

almost certinaly involve a bios update tho

Gerry

Take a look at this thread here:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40590