Atlhon vc Atlhon Thunderbird

[yangrossman]

What is the difference ? Is one faster than the other ? Is it worthy buying ?

 

[Guest]

Good ?. If we look at the latest bench marks update for the mpeg4 end\coding from Tom's, AMD SDR looks pretty good compared to the DDR. I guess the factor of choice for those of us looking at a new system very soon will make that based on price of the new DDR components.

If the preformance of DDR is 20%(generous at this point I know) and the component cost is 20% to 30% greater then SDR, is it worth getting.

I'm looking at doing a lot of video editing. The DDR may still be worth the premium in the long run for me do to the hundreds of hours of encoding I will have to do and the time it will save me compared to the difference in cost.

But others out there may not want to consider the DRR solution if cost/time factor is not important.

Then theres the "I'll get 5 more fps" people like me out there as well :>)



Take Care.
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[Guest]

This difference is that the original Athlon has an off-die L2 cache that runs at a fraction of the CPU speed...fraction varies by the how fast the CPU is...the faster the CPU, the smaller the fraction. The original Athlon also uses a <b>slot</b>-A form factor.

The Thunderbird Athlon has an on-die L2 cache that runs at CPU speed and thus is faster (I don't know how much). Most, but not all, Thunderbirds use a <b>socket</b>-A form factor, which all the new motherboards use.

So if you're starting from scratch, get a socket-A Thunderbird and a Socket-A motherboard.

Mike