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To: Joe NYC who wrote (111883)	5/22/2000 3:05:00 PM
From: 5dave22	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572382

Jozef (or anyone) - has Thunderbird been officially named anywhere? Is it just speculation that it will be named Athlon Pro? And the current Athlon will be Athlon classic? Just wondering, thanks. Dave

To: Joe NYC who wrote (111883)	5/22/2000 4:44:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572382

Jozef, I did read someplace that TBird will stick with 100MHz x 2 FSB. 133 won't come until Mustang. Petz

To: Joe NYC who wrote (111883)	5/23/2000 12:22:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1572382

Joe - RE: "speaking of FSB of Athlon / Thunderbird / Mustang / Willy, I have not seen any indication whether Thunderbird will be 133 MHz x 2 capable or stay at 100 MHz x 2. Related to that, if any of the current chipsets (AMD 750, KX133, KZ133) are 133 MHz capable. At this time, the motherboards and chipsets may be the bottleneck." Yeah, I also think it is chipsets and MBs. According to these posts at Ace's aceshardware.com and aceshardware.com 266MHz fsb works with AMD's 760 chipset and Via's KX266 chipsets. I'm not sure about Ali's chipset. All I know is it will support DDR SDRAM. If they just want to make one chipset to last the year, I assume it will be capable of the 266MHz fsb. Since the VIA KX266 and AMD 760 are coming out later this year, Thunderbird may only run (or be forced to) at a 200MHz fsb initially. What I want to know is if these upcoming chipset will be able to work with Mustang. I would prefer to get one motherboard that will work with Thunderbird and then Mustang later down the road. I would prefer not to get the shaft from AMD two times in one year. ;) But if I want the best performance I would want to use DDR SDRAM, but I don't know if I would want to replace all my RAM at the same time, so I would like some motherboard maker to have 168 AND 184 pin DIMM slots on the same board so I can upgrade in the future. OK, now someone go out their and make my personal motherboard. ;)