[ale] Socket A Processors

[James Sumners]

Okay. I don't claim to be an expert on AMD chips. I only have the one,
and I purchased it because it was cheap in relation to Intel chips at
the time. I want the XP 3200 because I only need it, and one stick of
RAM, to get a serious speedup on my gaming machine. I would go from a
2800 at 333Mhz to a 3200 at 400Mhz. Quite a bit of difference there
for half the cost of a completely brand new machine. Of course, I
won't be doing this since I am friggin broke. But, I can dream.

On 4/1/06, Pat Regan <thehead at patshead.com> wrote:
> James Sumners wrote:
> > Unless I missed something, all of the 266Mhz XPs in your second link,
> > except 1, are MPs (mobile processors). They cut down on some features
> > to save power (battery life).
>
> Athlon MP processors are not mobile, they are Multi Processor.  MPs are
> (were, at least) absolutely identical to XPs.  I am running a pair of
> Athlon XP 1700s on my old Tyan Tiger MP board here.
>
> IIRC, sometime around the bump from 266 to 333 mhz FSB they made some
> minor changes to the XP so that it would no longer be used in a
> multiprocessor setup.  I am pretty sure almost all XPs can be modified
> to run in an MP board, although I am not sure about the most recent ones
> (I stopped paying attention).
>
> The MP are still the same core as the XP, but the numbers don't match up
> since the FSB is still 266 on all the MPs.  For example, an MP 2800
> might run at the same clock speed as an XP 3200 (I made those numbers
> up, I don't know which ones actually correspond to each other).  They
> rate them down because of the performance hit due to the difference in FSB.
>
> Anyway, I don't know why everyone is arguing over socket A chips.  They
> are all getting slow by todays standards, anyway :p.  Does anyone know
> when the next generation of AMD 64 bit chips is due out?  I'm thinking I
> will hold off on my next motherboard upgrade until then, will I have to
> wait too long? :)
>
> Pat
>
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