Hi,
I'd like to build soon a slot a config and I already found an amd chipset based mainboard. How much the thunderbird at 1000Mhz differ in speed and stability with the different sockets?
Thank
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Socket A:
1. Socket A is much easier to find and work with.
2. Socket A provides a 133MHz (DDR266) bus and memory.
3. Socket A is a lot cheaper.
Slot A:
1. 1337-factor due being first 1GHz chip and being 'Athlon Classic'.
I did benchmark with 1000MHz/100FSB Slot A and 1000MHz/133 Socket A Athlons: thandor.net - Athlon 1000 vs Athlon 1000. The red bars are the Slot A Athlon Classic. Note that the Slot A part runs with SDR rather than DDR memory modules!
Regarding stability: I don't know. I never ran the Slot A Athlon 1000 for a long period. I guess it boils down to the motherboard and if you make sure you get one of the latest motherboards, proper cooling and a decent power supply it'll be fine.
thandor.net - hardware
And the rest of us would be carousing the aisles, stuffing baloney.
I also have a 1ghz slot-a chip and I have a "good" board for it. I'd make a system around it, using win98, but I dont have a good heatsink for it. I really want an old Alpha cooler, but I've almost given up hope finding one.
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. - Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
I always thought the slot a being the "real" original Athlon back when I still had the K6-2. But certainly the Socket A is an easier choice as I'm writting with it. 😁
wrote:Socket A gets my vote 😀
I newer board with a decent chipset and you'll have an awesome time. Don't forget about Duron, they are very nice as well.
Back then after the K6-2 I had a Duron 750 on socket A and I remember the big speed jump! 😀
Lately I tried the 1200 and 1300 SSE versions. I bit power demanding on the psu but good. Actually I'm trying the great Athlon 1400 in all its 70 and more watts and a KT133A more time correct mainboard. 😁
