Athlon--TBird?

[d_b]

Is an Athlon and a Tbird the same thing? Some reading I've done sugests that they are the same while other suggetsts they are not.

thanks

[flounder43]

There are older "classic" athlons, that were not t-birds. The classic athlons came in the "Slot A" configuration, although some t-birds did as well. All socket A cpu's are t-birds. The difference is the cache, and t-birds are now running much faster.

[d_b]

thanks flounder:). In other words the Durons and Athlons are like the Celerons were to Pentiums?

I have a socket A athlon 1000 @ 1220. I'm new to AMD having been an intel faithful until I was bitten by the upgrade bug. So far I'm liking it.

[Angry]

Exactly..However the brand spanking new Celerons are renamed p3's..well occording to an article i read.

[minoukat]

thunderbird (t-bird) are just the core of the chip. The chip's name is still Athlon, but with a different core (upgraded, better) core than the Classic's core