TweakTown have just published their big Socket A - AMD Thunderbird & Duron 5 page review. In the review they cover the history of AMD, information on the Thunderbird and Duron CPU, lots benchmarks comparing each cpu to a Intel Celeron II & Pentium III Coppermine and much more.
When the AMD Athlon was introduced AMD took the crown for fastest ever CPU away from Intel for the first time and it wouldn´t be the last. Intel was in fear of the Athlon CPU, so they tweaked their Pentium 3 CPU and moved the L2 cache to the CPU die making the cache a lot faster, this once again gave Intel the lead in the CPU market. Today we look at AMD´s answer to the Pentium 3 Coppermine and Celeron 2 CPU, AMD´s Athlon Thunderbird and Duron processors, in this, the first joint CPU review here at TweakTown!Read more
