A few weeks ago we reported that Xbitlabs had spotted information about upcoming AMD Thorton processors. Today Xbitlabs reveals more details.
Nearly a month ago we reported that AMD plans to roll-out another core for its Athlon XP processors, the Thorton with 256KB of L2 cache (See March 24, 2003 news-story). At that time nothing was known about the newcomer, but we supposed that this is just the same Barton, but with 256KB of L2 instead of 512KB. Well, today we found that ABIT?s NF7-S BIOS already supports AMD Thorton processors and even detects the right model-number for the parts. Apparently, Thorton 2600+ CPU is clocked at 2075MHz (166MHz x12.5), just like the Athlon XP ?Thoroughbred? 2600+ CPU for 333MHz EV-6 bus.
AMD also confirmed its ability to disable a half of Barton's 512KB L2 cache. Unofficial sources originally said that the Thorton chips will be sold under Duron brand-name, however, with 333MHz PSB and 256KB of L2 cache the new processors will more resemble Athlon XP ?Thoroughbred? CPUs rather than good-old Duron chips which stopped to develop more than a year ago.
For more info warp2 ... Xbitlabs.com.
Nearly a month ago we reported that AMD plans to roll-out another core for its Athlon XP processors, the Thorton with 256KB of L2 cache (See March 24, 2003 news-story). At that time nothing was known about the newcomer, but we supposed that this is just the same Barton, but with 256KB of L2 instead of 512KB. Well, today we found that ABIT?s NF7-S BIOS already supports AMD Thorton processors and even detects the right model-number for the parts. Apparently, Thorton 2600+ CPU is clocked at 2075MHz (166MHz x12.5), just like the Athlon XP ?Thoroughbred? 2600+ CPU for 333MHz EV-6 bus.
AMD also confirmed its ability to disable a half of Barton's 512KB L2 cache. Unofficial sources originally said that the Thorton chips will be sold under Duron brand-name, however, with 333MHz PSB and 256KB of L2 cache the new processors will more resemble Athlon XP ?Thoroughbred? CPUs rather than good-old Duron chips which stopped to develop more than a year ago.
For more info warp2 ... Xbitlabs.com.
