amd procs

[Attitudx]

The mobo i have supports duron, athalon and tbird processors up to 950. What I am wondering and it seems stupid to ask but I am not to whoopie on the differance. But i know an athlon 950 is better than a duron. Can anyone give me some insite on the big differance?? Thanks

[DR. YT]

athlons have on chip cash and durons dont cash is a little bank of mem the cpu uses for frequently used apps thus the athlons preform better due to the cash. altho the durons are great overclockers (witch is in fact due to the lack of cash)they still fall short to the athlons

[Attitudx]

cool cuz i am trying to pick up a athlon 950 for like 20 buck shipped and new

[CCW]

i wish my athlon had a lot of cash, id use it ot buy a new one!

er hem *cache* ???

[Attitudx]

lol wish mine had alot two i would have gotten an xp from jbell LOL

[piercedandtatto]

Originally posted by docyt
athlons have on chip cash and durons dont cash is a little bank of mem the cpu uses for frequently used apps thus the athlons preform better due to the cash. altho the durons are great overclockers (witch is in fact due to the lack of cash)they still fall short to the athlons

Actually they do have cache...the athlon has 128k L1 and 256k L2, the duron has 128 L1 but only 64k L2

[CCW]

anyone have ideas on how much cash the athlon 64bit will have?

[CCW]

ok, ive had nuff of me cash joke

[piercedandtatto]

Originally posted by CCW
anyone have ideas on how much cash the athlon 64bit will have?

i read a review that said it had 1024k but i dont know how reliable the review was

[CCW]

Cool,
A meg of cache, it'll be an ideal performance proc then!