Technical Reference Guide
Chapter 3
PROCESSOR/
MEMORY SUBSYSTEM
3.Chapter 3 PROCESSOR/MEMORY SUBSYSTEM
3.1INTRODUCTION
This chapter describes the processor/memory subsystem. These systems feature the AMD Athlon XP processor and an NVidia NForce chipset (Figure
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Covered in chapter 6.
Covered in chapter 4
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Figure 3–1. Processor/Memory Subsystem Architecture
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♦ AMD Athlon XP processor (3.2) | page | |
♦ | Memory subsystem (3.3) | page |
♦ | Subsystem configuration (3.4) | page |
Compaq D315 and hp d325 Personal Computers
Featuring the AMD Athlon XP Processor
Second Edition - April 2003