Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:30:14 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Dan Hollis <> | | Subject | Re: Dual Athlon XP 1800+ on Tyan Thunder K7 or Tiger MP anyone? |
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On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, David Lang wrote: > actually (having had my hands on 1.2GHz t-bird and MP boxes) the MP does > appear to be noticably faster per clock then the t-bird version. the new > XP is supposed to be the same core as the MP (just different marketing) as > I understand things.
It's palomino core. It means, new SSE instructions, bigger TLB cache, prefetch, and 20% power reduction. All this for maybe 5%-15% performance increase. And a not so nice increase in price tag :-o
Dual 1.2 non-MP is fine for me thanks... plenty fast and cheap.
-Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]
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