Athlon question

[Jose]

Sorry guys, a PC question. I view it this way: it's a means of finding out how to spend the least possible on my PC, and reserving some money to Amiga hardware. :-D At least it's about the Athlon processor, not Intel and M$. I have this slotA motherboard that I was thinking on upgrading to the limit. I found two processors that run at 1Ghz. One seems to be the Classic Athlon, the other is a special slotA version of the Thunderbird that is getting more and more rare. The Athlon "classic" seems to have a 512k cache and the Athlon Thunderbird a 256k one.

First could anyone confirm this please, and are those the fastest processor available for slotA?

Do you know if there was a version of the Thunderbird for slotA with 512k cache?

Not taking the cache into account wich is faster?  

[Jose]

Hey. I currently have Win98SE on the thing, manily for Uni stuff. An adapter for socket 370? Wouldn't that require a Bios update or something?
My motherboard is an ASUS K7M, and it supports the 1Ghz processors, I've checket it out. But I still don't know wich would be the fastest processor to put on the thing  :-?

[Jose]

@ GW
Thanks for all the details. Yes I'm lucky enouph that my motherboard (AsusK7M) has the AMD751 chipset and so it supports the Thunderbird  :-D  The downside is that it only supports PC100 SDRAM  :-x

@filson

Yeah, but I'd have to buy a new motherboard, like this it will be cheaper.  With a well done overclock it will do anything I want  :-D  And I'll save for future Amiga PPC hardware too.