Akashio wrote:Hey. I was just about to buy a Athlon motherboard, when I saw the words, "CPU Supported: Socket A AMD Athlon/XP/Duron (support AMD XP3000 "Barton") Thoroughbred core CPU ready."
How do I know if my Athlon 2100+ XP (still in package) will work with it? how do I know if it's thoroughbred? or does it matter?
First off, your Palamino (the 2100+) will work just fine since it is Socket A and an Athlon XP.
As for what a Thoroughbred is. Thoroughbred is a design revision of the Athlon core. It has "tweaks" and improvements for higher frequency (Thoroughbred A/BX goes from 2200+ to 2800+). As Anime2Envy mentioned, this is on the .13 micro process, however the only difference is not just the multiplyer. As I said, it was a design revision and has changes in the core as mentioned. Also, some of the units support a 333 Mhz FSB.
On a side-note, Barton is another design revision. The major change being an increased cache size (256 -> 512 KB). These also run in the 333 Mhz FSB.
Basic timeline:
K7/Athlon
K7 Classic -> Thunderbird -> Palamino -> Thoroughbred -> Barton