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.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
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. 😁
