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Subject: Re: Athlon, 1.2 GB, 1.3GB 1.33 GB, or something much better coming soon?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 13:08:43 05/23/01

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On May 23, 2001 at 15:20:35, John Dahlem wrote:

>When I look at computers to purchase, I always have seen either 1.3 or 1.33
>listed to buy, never both.  This leads me to think they are in fact the same
>chip, with 1.33 being the more exact clock speed

The 1.3Ghz has a 13 multiplier times 100 Mhz bus speed.
The 1.33Ghz has a 10 multiplier times 133 Mhz bus speed.

The 1.33 is faster, not really becaus of the 0.03 mhz CPU
speed advantage, but because of the 33Mhz faster bus.

--
GCP



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