AMD sockets and slots.

[willis128]

I was going to get a Asus A7V motherboard which supports Socket A Athlons. When I was looking through the available Athlons I noticed that that ther are Slot A and Socket A Athlons. What is the difference and which one peforms best ? Thanks.

[Thud]

Check this out: http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/Forum5/HTML/004933.html

[willis128]

Thanks. One more query - the Slote A 800mhz Athlon has 512kb L2 cache while the Socket A appears to only have 256kb L2 cache. Does this not mean the Slot A is better ?

[JayMan]

If i am correct, Slot k7's have L2 cache running at a fraction of the actual clock speed, but the socket k7's have cache running at full speed.

JayMan

[willis128]

Cool. Thanks for your help.