History

Athlon is the name of the brand that is too well-appreciated and at the same time, it is a series of the lot of different and unique type of processors of x86 processors which are presented with the great effort.  The designs those are made and manufacturing by the company AND is really a out-class work. The AMD Athlon™ II Processor that is now called Athlon Classic was the processor that was used and considered the first seventh-generation x86 processor.  So far as the performance of this processor is concerned, it has more qualitative performance as compare to the other processors present in the technology market. The comparison of this AMD Athlon™ II Processors can be made with the any processors those were present at that time, especially with the  Intel's competing processors, and we saw a more an outstanding working of this processor. It was the first desktop processor that has the capacity to reach the speed of 1 GHz.  This renowned company AMD has started and made permanence in its working with the same name of the Athlon and it worked with the Athlon 64, it was an eighth-generation processor having all the important featuring x86-64 technology.



Background

In the month of August 1999, the company AMD presented in the world market a new type of processor the Athlon K7 processor.  The most of the important thing is that the design team was very excellent and it worked under the head of the famous and renowned professional Dirk Meyer, who was the main figure and at the same time and he had worked as a leader engineer and made an excellent working  on the multiple Alpha microprocessors during his employment at DEC.

Taipei show

AMD is making a great progress in the field of the computer world. This claim is really well appreciated in the show of the Taipei. It has presented a new series of processors of the desktop in the show. The most important thing that is relating to this show is that AMD has presented all processors in the affordable prices. A few of the processors among those compressors were those are based on the existing core and these processors are  employed among  their Phenom II processor  those were line-up Among those processors  that was based on the new piece of silicon that gives a great  homage to the once big  Athlon brand.

How to buy

All processors those are available in the market have some sort of the similarities among them. But at the same time in the market point of view we can enumerate something different among all these processors. So before to buy any processor for you desktop use, it really becomes very important that you should look a little glimpse on the specification and detail of this processor that will be very easy for you to make a decision

Specification

 

Athlon


AMD Athlon logo

Produced

From mid 1999 to 2005

Common manufacturer(s)

AMD

Max. CPU clock

500 MHz to 2.33 GHz

FSB speeds

100 MHz to 200 MHz

Min. feature size

0.25µm to 0.13µm

Instruction set

x86

Socket(s)

Slot A
Socket A

Core name(s)

K7 (Argon)

K75 (Pluto/Orion)
Thunderbird
Palomino
Thoroughbred A/B

Barton/Thorton

 

L1-Cache: 64 + 64 KB (Data + Instructions)

L2-Cache: 512 KB, external chips on CPU module with 50%, 40% or 33% of CPU speed

MMX, 3DNow!

Slot A (EV6)

Front side bus: 200 MT/s (100 MHz double-pumped)

VCore: 1.6 V (K7), 1.6–1.8 V (K75)

First release: June 23 1999 (K7), November 29 1999 (K75)

Clockrate: 500–700 MHz (K7), 550–1000 MHz (K75)

L1-Cache: 64 + 64 KB (Data + Instructions)

L2-Cache: 256 KB, full speed

MMX, 3DNow!

Slot A & Socket A (EV6)

Front side bus: 100 MHz (Slot-A, B-models), 133 MHz (C-models) (200 MT/s, 266 MT/s)

VCore: 1.70–1.75 V

First release: June 5, 2000

Clockrate:

Slot A: 650–1000 MHz

Socket A, 100 MHz FSB (B-models): 600–1400 MHz

Socket A, 133 MHz FSB (C-models): 1000–1400 MHz