First post, by sliderider
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Do they still use the slower external cache on the circuit board like the earlier Slot A Athlons or is it full speed on chip like the Socket A Athlons?
Reply 1 of 5, by megatron-uk
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Wikipedia implies the on-cartridge l2 cache with the slot-a t-bird was full speed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon#Thunderbird_.28T-Bird.29
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Reply 2 of 5, by Old Thrashbarg
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Yeah, it's full-speed on-die cache.
But before you get any ideas... if this is related to that Anigma SlotA board you mentioned a few days ago, forget it... that board won't work with Thunderbirds.
Reply 3 of 5, by sliderider
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wrote:Yeah, it's full-speed on-die cache.
But before you get any ideas... if this is related to that Anigma SlotA board you mentioned a few days ago, forget it... that board won't work with Thunderbirds.
Why not? It uses the AMD 750 chipset and that is compatible with Thunderbirds.
Reply 4 of 5, by Old Thrashbarg
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Because the IBM BIOS isn't compatible with Thunderbirds. If you can manage to get the Gateway 'Kadoka' BIOS to work on it then you may have a chance... but that's assuming the two boards are in fact identical.
Reply 5 of 5, by sliderider
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I found a page at Gateway that has the updated files for the Kadoka motherboard. I'll have to find a Thunderbird for a good price to find out if I can flash the Gateway BIOS to the Anigma board or not and if it works. The last files Gateway has for the Kadoka motherboard are here if anyone needs them.
http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/se … n¶m=4000594
Maybe there's a hacked BIOS out there somewhere that supports the Thunderbird on the IBM version of the board. Does anyone know any good places I can look?
I'm also wondering if the incompatibility might not be related to voltage. I know that the slower Slot A Athlons used a different voltage than the faster ones.