Ineresting the AMD 2500 is a slower clock than the 2400
Hanasaki JiJi
hanasaki at hanaden.com
Mon Mar 10 17:34:13 CST 2003
Well I was thinking of an Asus a7v8x w/ a 2500barton vs 2400+xp
Any thoughts on which ram to use? what is the cl2.0 vs 2.5? I notice
the kingston and crucial 2700 512meg are about $70 while the mushikan is
$140. The specs look the same.
Aaron wrote:
> I don't use AMD's for specifically this reason. The VP of Marketing from
> AMD and I had a discussion about this 10 years ago with the 486's. They
> wanted to call their dx2-80 a dx4-100 because the performance was equivalent
> (in their opinion). I spent a three hour lunch explaining to him why that
> was wrong. Now they're doing it with the Thunderbirds. It's confusing at
> best and misleading at worst.
>
> the performance issue on this is a bus speed issue. Of course a 266 bus is
> going to be slower then a 333 bus. It doesn't really matter what the
> processor speed is. All people look at is the price and the "number"
> (notice I didn't say speed).
>
> Aaron
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <numa at thenuma.com>
> To: <kclug at kclug.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 9:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Ineresting the AMD 2500 is a slower clock than the 2400
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>>Same thing happened from T-bred a --> B. I have the tbred B2400 running
>>at 2200 Mhz. :)
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>>Kris
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>>>ATHLON XP 2500 CPU: 1.83 GHz
>>>266 Bus
>>>ATHLON XP 2400 XP 2400 Thoroughbred
>>>333 Bus
>>>Info from www.newegg.com catalog
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