What can I get?

[Triforce]

I am gonna upgrade my cpu to athlon 1.4 ghz. My problem si there are 2 kinds of 1.4ghz. There is the athlon4 1.4ghz and Athlon tbird 1.4ghz. Which is better and compatible with my motherboard?
http://www.amd.com/news/virtualpress/roadmap.html

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[This message has been edited by Triforce (edited September 03, 2001).]

[gotmonopoly?]

They are both the same CPU. Any Athlon above 1.1 Ghz is the same except it may have a 200mhz FSB or a 266 FSB.

Since you have a KT7A.. make sure you get a 1400Mhz Thunderbird 266FSB.

[AMD_Forever]

Originally posted by gotmonopoly?:
[B]They are both the same CPU. B]

No, they're not. The Athlon 4 is based on the newer Palomino core, and isn't even available yet. The Palomino can outperform an equivalently clocked Thunderbird by about 10% due to Hardware Prefetch. Also, the Desktop Palomino should have more overclocking headroom, require less extravagant HSF's to reach those higher overclocks, and it's new SSE instructions will help it out a little bit more too.

Since ABIT plans to release a bios update (if they haven't already) for the KT7A to support Palomino, then he should get the Palomino if he's planning to buy when the desktop Palomino is actually available.

[Corona]

Originally posted by AMD_Forever:
No, they're not. The Athlon 4 is based on the newer Palomino core, and isn't even available yet. The Palomino can outperform an equivalently clocked Thunderbird by about 10% due to Hardware Prefetch. Also, the Desktop Palomino should have more overclocking headroom, require less extravagant HSF's to reach those higher overclocks, and it's new SSE instructions will help it out a little bit more too.

Since ABIT plans to release a bios update (if they haven't already) for the KT7A to support Palomino, then he should get the Palomino if he's planning to buy when the desktop Palomino is actually available.

I'm sure he didn't notice the 4, because I didn't until I read your post.



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