Author Topic: Pretty good CPU architecture article (Read 579 times)

bloom25 · « **on:** July 08, 2001, 04:07:00 AM »

http://www.arstechnica.com/cpu/01q2/p4andg4e/p4andg4e-1.html

You guys might remember a while back I wrote an article about why I thought the P4 was bad. This article (though not trying specifically to do that) is comparing the p4 to the Macintosh G4. The article is pretty technical, but the author does use several illustrations and anybody can learn a lot from reading it.

In case you were curious the Athlon uses an 11 stage pipeline, so keep this in mind. It also has a very large L1 cache (fully 8x larger than P4) and the new Palomino's feature an improved branch predictor and a new prefetch unit.

Tac · « **Reply #1 on:** July 08, 2001, 07:06:00 AM »

Thnx Bloom. Just to let ya know, ordered my AMD 1.4ghz 2 days ago..I wouldve thrown a lot more money down the drain if it wasnt for yer advice (and the advice of others here) if I had got meself a P4.

This waiting is driving me INSANE!!!!

bloom25 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 08, 2001, 07:39:00 PM »

The thunderbirds are great, but do be careful mounting the heatsink.

I still start shaking whenever I put one on a Tbird or Duron.

AMD has an article on their website on how they recommend it should be done, make sure you read it or have someone else mount it that has done it before.

Once you get that far I'm sure you'll be happy with it.

Tac · « **Reply #3 on:** July 08, 2001, 08:46:00 PM »

oh nay worry, they are building it for me, I even put in an extra fan on the thing..and got a fricken huge case for it (5X5.25 bays, 4X 1.3 bays heeeheee)