[NTLUG:Discuss] Interesting looking vendor

[David Neeley]

1. The 3rd Saturday events moved to Big Town Shopping Center. Now run by 
the First Saturday people; not a particularly good sale, IMHO.

2. Thunderbird has a cache running at the speed of the processor core, thus 
is significantly faster than the Slot A Athlon. Thunderbird IS the current 
Athlon. The idea that the Slot A Athlons run faster in MHz than the new 
Thunderbird variant is incorrect.

3. Duron is an Athlon with some leads unconnected, thus without full Athlon 
capabilities. (There was an interesting Internet account of someone who 
used a pencil to reconnect the original components...apparently there was 
enough conductivity in the pencil line to work. I'd sure like to see that 
one for myself!).

4. Personally, I generally prefer ASUS because of their superior support 
for their boards. They post downloadable driver and BIOS upgrades for years 
after a board is no longer current. I also have found SOYO to be quite good.

5. There are a number of processor/motherboard packages in the processor 
plus motherboard combination for the prices you mentioned for a motherboard 
alone. This is particularly true of Duron and the slotted Athlons.

I hope this helps.

David



At 12:29 PM 11/11/00 -0600, you wrote:
>What with the "disappearance" of the 3rd Saturday events at InfoMart,...
>Athlons seem to scale to higher MHz values than the other two,...
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