Talk:Athlon
What exactly is meant by "The Athlon is an Intel Pentium II compatible processor" - same instruction set?
The major distinctions are in the SIMD instructions, neh?
Oh and perhaps this should be linked up as "Athlon"
The Athlon is considered "Pentium II compatible" because it supports the Intel MMX instruction set, but not the SSE found in the Pentium III. The Athlon XP added this functionality. Of course, the Athlons also supports instructions the Intel processors do not (3dNow and 3dNow Pro).
Some mention of Athlon MP (multiprocessing) would be good. Also, Opteron should be mentioned sometime.
I think all this talk about overclocking should be removed. It is simply unprofessional and does actually add little information.
re: Athlon XP: There's a lot of talk about the Thunderbird initially, but what are we reading that's specific to the XP line? Plus, there should be an entry about AMD rebranding the speed monikers to specify a comparison to VIA's EPIA chips, rather than a raw Mhz rating.