New Look Athlon XP

[Scout]

I noticed some lower speed Athlons at a Computer Shop the other day which looked to have the Barton core with the larger chip. I see the AMD web site has a specification suppliment showing an Athlon Model 10 (which is the Barton) but with 256k L2 cache.

Anyone know anything about these chips? Seems like the come in XP2000, 2200, and 2400 flavors and the only thing I noticed in the spec sheet is they seem to use a bit less power typically. Do these chips have the 512k but with half disabled? Could you modify something and enable the full 512k? (Heh..heh..) Wonder how they overclock...

Scout
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[tombance]

Its very likely that AMD shut down the thoroughbred production line to make room for athlon 64/FX and simply disabled half the cache of bartons to make up the supply. This would probably end up cheaper for AMD, since Im sure a lot of bartons fail to have all of their cache working, meaning they would normally go to waste.

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[sturm]

What you saw was the "thorton" cpu. Its a barton core but with half the cache disabled - 256 instead of 512. Dont know if you can modify it to get the full 512.

 

[Spitfire_x86]

You can enable the disabled cache. But if the disabled cache is faulty, then you'll face serious stability issues.

<A HREF="http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20030930171549.html" target="_new">This article may help you</A>


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[Scout]

Good article... Thanks! I may just have to try one of these. But in thinking about it, the price difference to an XP2500+ really isn't worth it given the ability to run those $90 chips at XP3200+ speeds...

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