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OCWorkbench send words that the Athlon MP are selling in Japan.



The appearance of this processor is similar to the old Thunderbird except for a few differences. Firstly the size of the core differs. The Palomino is 20% is larger than the core of the Thunderbird, so far the core of the impression which is wide, is almost visible in square. The marking on the core has the word "AMD Athlon" The Model number "AHX1200AM3C" has the new "HX" letters. As for these 2 letters with the item column, Generation, " the HX " has the meaning of the High-Performance Processor for Multiprocessing Systems. In addition, the new processor also has more bridges than before. I suspect that they can be used to control other functions like SMP etc.
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