Originally Posted by gradius
What I\'M worried about is not whether the t-bird will be overclockable, but whether our lovely overclocking rigs will fit on the mobo, now that the t-bird will go to socket A. Luckily, the first t-birds will still prob\'ly be Socket A.

Originally Posted by Anon@proxy2-external.chstfld1.va.home.com
Hmm. I think that we will be seeing thunderbirds soon. Most likely.. the obvious.. 1.1 Ghz..

These processors are designed to go to a Max of 1.05 Ghz. And AMD knows they have a huge
problem with the L2 Cache. I am pretty sure that you will be seeing the Thunderbird replacing
the current Athlon models soon.

Anand made a point about the 15 - 20% increase in speed with L2 cache being on-die. However
he forgot about the additional 20% in speed that you are likely to see with the copper interconnects.

Going to be a very impressive chip. And I suspect very OC friendly.

Originally Posted by Anon@216.161.235.98
I can\'t believe how fast prices have fallen.. It really is unreal. I\'m anxious to see what they dive to this week and next now that the 1GHz, 950, and 900 are released.

Now if only they would rush the SMP systems to market! :)

Azonic
(Jer Davis)

Originally Posted by Anon@CM1dhcp-1-16.cm.gscyclone.com
I\'ve rumors from more than one ver reliable source that Abit has indeed developed an Athlon board based on the 751 chipset. But due to compatability issues with certain hardware at the moment is leaving Abit cautious to release it. The OEMs have delt with with this issue and are doing quite weel with Athlon based systems so I dont understand fully the reasons behind the scenes for Abit to hold out on a golden opportunity to bank on AMD. Was at a Marketpro show today. 700 mhz Athlon chips were melting away for $249.00 Unreal,.. I love it.

Originally Posted by Anon@hport15.sirus.com
hmm...does anyone else see a future Abit motherboard??? :-)

Originally Posted by Anon@sdn-ar-002gasavaP272.dialsprint.net
I agree with the people who think the GF functionality will be directly accessible via motherboard SoftMenu-type controls in the bios when the chip package is changed.

Originally Posted by Anon@spider-wl052.proxy.aol.com
I\'m concerned that the dilatory release of AMD compat motherboards will require me to buy an interim system until these features are actually implemented, SoftMenu-style. Until then, time to get out the nail polish!

Originally Posted by DABANSHEE
Actually, I;ve heard that some one the new KX133 boards may have pin headers on the board, & that said boards will come with a cable that connects the \'golden fingers\' to the pin headers, so the board will be acting as the GFD ityself, & thereby voltage & multiplyers will be BIOS adjustable. Also as many of you may or maynot know the cache ratio is already BIOS adjustable, its just no board OEMS have implemented that function.

So hopefully there\'s no reason for GFDs in the future. When the Socket A comes out the pins will all plug into the socket anyway, so it will be up to manufacturers to impliment voltage, multiplyer & cache variables in the BIOS.

So stop worring people

Most of the devices on the top are standard caps, however there does appear to be a resistor network tacked onto the top of it.

Originally Posted by Anon@adsl-63-194-218-165.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net
Resistors? - those are almost certainly decoupling caps - tossing them on there is quite common these daya - Taniwha