[KLUG Members] Re: Win2k+linux and some questions on Hard drives (typos)

[Sanjay Chigurupati]

hi,
very interesting. If I wnated to find more information
about AMD processors, similar to what u mentioned,
where can I check? The info u gave was quite detailed
and I am not sure if their website has it. could you
please point me in the right direction?

thx,
sanjay

--- Bryan-TheBS-Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org> wrote:
> Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote:
> > The newer "Athlon 4" core
> 
> Clarification:
> Like the previous Athlon-C "Thunderbird," the
> Athlon-4 cache is 128KB
> L1, 256KB L2.  It also has a wider, set-associative
> approach on the L2
> cache over the Athlon-C that improves the hit ratio.
> 
> Another benefit of Athlon v. Intel is that Athlon
> does "exclusive"
> caching.  On Intel, the L2 _must_ have a copy of
> what L1 has.  It also
> has to load from memory to L2 to L1 before it
> actually gets to the
> freak'n CPU registers, and store vice-versa!
> 
> Athlons can store/load to/from L1, L2 and memory
> directly.  So it has a
> _true_ 192KB (Duron) and 384KB
> (Thunderbird/Athlon-4) "effective
> cache."  Intel's is only 128KB (Celeron) and 256KB
> (P3/4) "effective
> cache" (because L2 _must_ contain everything L1
> does).
> 
> > 200/266*1.4GHz = 1.066GHz.
> 
> Oops!  Bad Math!
> 200/266*1.4GHz = 1.050GHz.
> 
> -- TheBS
> 
> -- 
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