Question regarding a Thunderbird 900 chip PLEASE HELP

[traitun]

i have a question:

i ordered a chip a couple of days ago and it arrived today. i ordered a thunderbird chip from http://www.allstarcomponents.com.

i've never seen a thunderbird chip, but i'm assuming it would have thunderbird written on the green/blue core and not "athlon" it says:

AMD Athlon
A0900AMT3B
AQFA 0043BPAW
93305350344
1999 AMD

it also has written: Assembled in Malaysia
it has an AMD logo off the actual core
and it has L1, L2, L3,L4, L5, L6 AND L7 written on different parts of the chip.

is this accurate or am i being paranoid,
i don't want to take it out of the sealed bag it comes in. the stickers on the outside have it labeled an amd thunderbird, but it's a ****ing sticker my grandma could make.

some info would help boys...

traitun

[traitun]

nevermind boys, i looked up thunderbird at anandtech and found this little tidbit:
The easiest way to tell the two CPUs apart is that the Thunderbirds will be advertised as a Socket-A processor, whereas the regular Athlons will simply be Slot-A parts. If you ask for a Socket-A Athlon, you're definitely going to get a Thunderbird (unless your vendor sells you a Duron which is also Socket-A, but that's a sign of a bad vendor).

Another way to make certain that you'll be getting a Thunderbird is to make sure to select an Athlon with 256KB of on-die L2 cache, as the regular Athlon is only available with 512KB of L2 cache.

If all of that fails (which it shouldn't), you can always look at the part numbers on the chips themselves. Here is a quick tutorial on what the part numbers mean.

The part number for the older Athlons followed this type of a scheme: AMD-K7XXX where XXX is the clock frequency. In the case of an Athlon 900, the part number would be AMD-K7900.

The part numbers for the newer Thunderbirds follow this type of a scheme: AMD-AXXXX where XXX is the clock frequency. In the case of a 900MHz Thunderbird, the part number would be AMD-A0900.

[traitun]

nevermind boys, i looked up thunderbird at anandtech and found this little tidbit:
The easiest way to tell the two CPUs apart is that the Thunderbirds will be advertised as a Socket-A processor, whereas the regular Athlons will simply be Slot-A parts. If you ask for a Socket-A Athlon, you're definitely going to get a Thunderbird (unless your vendor sells you a Duron which is also Socket-A, but that's a sign of a bad vendor).

Another way to make certain that you'll be getting a Thunderbird is to make sure to select an Athlon with 256KB of on-die L2 cache, as the regular Athlon is only available with 512KB of L2 cache.

If all of that fails (which it shouldn't), you can always look at the part numbers on the chips themselves. Here is a quick tutorial on what the part numbers mean.

The part number for the older Athlons followed this type of a scheme: AMD-K7XXX where XXX is the clock frequency. In the case of an Athlon 900, the part number would be AMD-K7900.

The part numbers for the newer Thunderbirds follow this type of a scheme: AMD-AXXXX where XXX is the clock frequency. In the case of a 900MHz Thunderbird, the part number would be AMD-A0900.

[Rob Cork]

Yeah, it's always good to know what the numbers mean. I ordered a duron 650 from dabs.com in december, and they sent me a week 25 (august-ish) 600! Guess they thought I wouldn't notice huh? I probably should've complained, it'll only do 1000 at 2.2V :(