Can I change a Duron to an Athlon/T-bird?

[Akumu X]

Come to think of it...what's the difference between an Athlon and a T-Bird (different chip)?

But I'm getting an 800 Duron...what can i do to make this an Athlon/T-Bird?
asides from replacing the chip (they both use PC 133 correct?)

thanks in advance

[quegyboe]

Akumu X (Feb 11, 2001 07:01 p.m.):
Come to think of it...what's the difference between an Athlon and a T-Bird (different chip)?

But I'm getting an 800 Duron...what can i do to make this an Athlon/T-Bird?
asides from replacing the chip (they both use PC 133 correct?)

thanks in advance

Actually, the Duron's and Athlon's are PC200 if you want to call it that. The run a 200mhz cpu bus. As for changing them, they can't be changed. The Duron has 64KB's of L2 cache and the Athlons have 256KB's so you can't change them...sorry.

[quegyboe]

Akumu X (Feb 11, 2001 07:01 p.m.):
Come to think of it...what's the difference between an Athlon and a T-Bird (different chip)?

But I'm getting an 800 Duron...what can i do to make this an Athlon/T-Bird?
asides from replacing the chip (they both use PC 133 correct?)

thanks in advance

Actually, the Duron's and Athlon's are PC200 if you want to call it that. The run a 200mhz cpu bus. As for changing them, they can't be changed. The Duron has 64KB's of L2 cache and the Athlons have 256KB's so you can't change them...sorry.

[quegyboe]

Akumu X (Feb 11, 2001 07:01 p.m.):
Come to think of it...what's the difference between an Athlon and a T-Bird (different chip)?

But I'm getting an 800 Duron...what can i do to make this an Athlon/T-Bird?
asides from replacing the chip (they both use PC 133 correct?)

thanks in advance

Actually, the Duron's and Athlon's are PC200 if you want to call it that. The run a 200mhz cpu bus. As for changing them, they can't be changed. The Duron has 64KB's of L2 cache and the Athlons have 256KB's so you can't change them...sorry.

[Rob Cork]

Sorry, I'm not quite sure what you're asking... do you want to know what you can upgrade to from the duron?

[Akumu X]

i guess i wasn't specific enough...
i have a 800 duron
can i make it an 800+ athlon?
or is buying the new chip and throwing it in not gonna cut it??
ok?

[Rob Cork]

If you replace the duron with a tbird then yes, it will be a tbird - the rest of the system is irrelevent if that's what you mean. Obviously the mobo has to be socket A so the cpu works with it, but if for instance I were to take out my duron and stick in a tbird it'd be a tbird system... think that's what you mean. Nothing else needs changing :-)

[g.nEUz]

you could glue some xtra 192kb of second level cache on it ^_^


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