On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 21:56:59 -0700 (PDT), S.Toms wrote:
What exactly are the characteristic differences between these two boards? Anyone know, The Slot A is for the new AMD Athlon chips and we all know what the Slot 1 is for. But can a Slot A chip (Athlon) plug into a Slot 1 board? It looks like it could and I havn't come across anything that explicitly says, "No stupid, you can't." :)
No, stupid, you can't :). They are similar in design, yes. As a matter of fact, you can (from what I've read, mostly crack-head authors, though) place an Athlon in a Slot 1 board. Architecturally (pin-out wise) they are totally different. Slot A is actually a 200mhz FSB design, slowed down to 100 and 133mhz, and Slot 1 is a 66mhz design that's been sped up to 100 and 133 mhz. Slot 1 is an Intel design, Slot A is an Alpha design. -- -=|JP|=- (Resident GNUbie) Jon Pennington | SuSE Linux 6.2 -o) super-suser@excite.com | Kernel 2.2.10 /\\ Kansas City, Missouri | AMD K6-III 450 _\_V ________________________________________________________________ Get FREE voicemail, fax and email at http://voicemail.excite.com Talk online at http://voicechat.excite.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/