Tbird or Athlon?

Real simple: Is it a slot or PGA (pin grid array otherwise known as a socket)? In other words does it install like a PCI card or does it have many pins (small square) and lie flat to the board?

If it is the PGA (small sqaure w/ pins) it is the T-Bird. Which most likly it is. The Athlon is old now (what I have). Plus I don't believe it comes in 1.1 GHz.

They are technically both Athlons as you have observed.

<b> Fragg at will!!! </b>

I'm sure this has been explained somewhere here before but I will state it again for you as well as others who might be confused:

Thuderbird is the code name for newer Athlons. The name stuck so that users could differentiate between the 2 versions of Athlons that were out at the time of it's release.

Athlon Classic (Athlon-A)= Athlon core 100mhz fsb, 512kb off chip cache running at 1/2, 2/5 or 1/3 of core speed depending on the speed of the chip. It came in Slot-A only

Athlon Thunderbird (Athlon-B)= Athlon core 100mhz fsb, 256kb on chip cache running at full core speed in all cases. It comes mainly in Socket-A but you can find it in Slot-A if you look really hard.

Athlon Thunderbird (Athlon-C) = Same as Athlon-B but chip uses 133Mhz fsb.

Hope this clears up the mystery.

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