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Subject: Re: T-Bird or not?

Author: Ed Panek

Date: 05:47:04 12/08/00

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On December 08, 2000 at 07:28:50, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On December 08, 2000 at 06:51:09, Shep wrote:
>
>>I'm a bit confused. Isn't AMD manufacturing T-Birds *only* these days?
>>My understanding was that the whole line of Athlons stopped with the 1GHz
>>version, then only T-Birds (starting out at 700 MHz) were being distributed.
>>They just don't say "Thunderbird" anymore since beyond 1GHz there is no chance
>>of confusion anymore (as it was with "Athlon 1000" vs. "Athlon Thunderbird
>>1000").
>>
>>Maybe someone can shed a light here?
>
>That's a good point. AMD is just manufacturing Durons and Thunderbirds currently
>to my knowledge. But it's not impossible to get your hands on an old Athlon.
>Though I'm not sure if they made a 1.2GHz model. Then there's also Kryotech
>versions with various clockspeeds on the market. I just assumed that they would
>be consistant and write T-bird throughout. But I tend to agree with you. The
>1.2GHz Athlon is most likely a Thunderbird.
>



Correct....anything list over 1gig is a Thunderbird.

Ed
>Mogens.



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