Wats wif the green core amd or blue core amd??wats the diference??

[blizzardsnake]

anybody?

[Hoot]

Mine is blue-green. Boy do I feel liberal :-)

Hoot

[OpenFriday]

I Didnt think there was a difference, i believe mines green.

[FRANK]

Moot point on new chips now I believe, but the older BLUE CORES were fabricated in Germany of copper, the GREEN ones came from Texas and are of aluminum. It is generally accepted that the BLUE CORES have higher potential for over clocking. It is said that all chips manufactured after July 2000 are of copper.

[OpenFriday]

Well there ya' go, i learn something new every day.

[Neptune]

FRANK (Mar 14, 2001 10:46 p.m.):
Moot point on new chips now I believe, but the older BLUE CORES were fabricated in Germany of copper, the GREEN ones came from Texas and are of aluminum. It is generally accepted that the BLUE CORES have higher potential for over clocking. It is said that all chips manufactured after July 2000 are of copper.

Well, your half correct. The Blue ones are manufactured in the newer Dresdan plant. Both chips, however, have the aluminum interconnects. The whole copper thing was a rumor that spread quite quickly, but in actuality it is not cost efficient for AMD to produce these for the Current crop of Athlons (watch for Palamino though).

Since the blue ones are from the newer plant, they generally o/c better. I had a blue 1ghz and it ran just under 1.3 ghz. Unfortunatly, there was an accident and it is no longer with us. The 1.1ghz proc i have now is a 'greenie" and it sucks. This thing wont even boot into windows at 1.2ghz.

[OpenFriday]

I hope mines not green i bought it like 2 weeks ago, heck i dont care either way better oc potential than the chip i have now. Wait, it looks blue-ish green, i cant really tell, i wish they had colors like PINK and BLACK so i could tell.

[Door Knob]

Actually I think you might be wrogn Neptune, and Frank is half right. To my understanding it is just like what frank said except for the German plant stopped production as of July 2000 so all the new Tbirds on the market are made of aluminum.

[Deviant]

When looking to see if you have a green or blue Duron or Tbird, look at the varnish around the centre core, not at the core itself.
Most are blue or green, but some people have reported having brown, purple and even a redish colour.

[ExtremeOC]

from what i know, the color actully adentifies the cores.
the blues are supposted to be test 1gig+ cores, the grens are the standard athlon technology, and the reds were experimental...
Thats what i've heard, but there is supoosed to be some dif with the blue's cache lines and bus.... i think they have a deeper one, that would accoutn for the higher clock speed.
the 266 cores, well...
from what i hear, if you get a red 266 1.2, it doesnt have the new 2001 1.3gig core.... it has an experamental paliminio....
i could be wrong, but when i get info like this from some of the people i know it's generally worth a grain of salt or two. Don't hold me to this, but this is what i think it goes like this, and the chips are basicly the same from both plants:


green: durons 600-850 athlons 700-1000. standard tech. they abonded this core at 1ghz 'casue of some probs with stability and temps.

blue: rare durons 700-850 (i havent heard of a blue under 700 duron) 700-1000: Experimental 1ghz core. few slight changes in the chip and the FAB process.

red: no durons, athlon 800-1000, 1.2 266FSB
the other 1gig core, alpha experament. at the 266 level, it's a chopped down Paliminio.

DO NOT HOLD ME TO THIS, IT'S JUST WHAT I'VE HEARD.

[DaveB]

If you're gonna post in "hood speak", please get it right. It's not "Wats wif the", it's "Wats wif da".

[FRANK]

Neptunes writes;

>No copper interconnects on T-BIRDS?Well, your half correct. The Blue ones are manufactured in the newer Dresdan plant. Both chips, however, have the aluminum interconnects. The whole copper thing was a rumor that spread quite quickly, but in actuality it is not cost efficient for AMD to produce these for the Current crop of Athlons (watch for Palamino though<

No copper interconnects on T-BIRDS?

Not that it really matters but that's the first I've heard of the rumor. All I can say is that I try to pass on information that is as accurate as I can find. I try to stay with the established sites and watch the articles and posts. One source of the information that I passed on above, came from one of the most respected sites on the web, right here at Overclockers.com.

from "Here Comes The Blue Meanies!"
Ed Stroligo - 8/17/00


>AMD Facts of Life

There are actually two kinds of TBirds out there:

Aluminum-interconnect Austin chips (greenish tint)
Copper-interconnect Dresden chips (blueish tint)<

from "So You Want 1Ghz?"
Ed Stroligo - 10/6/00

>AMD

Durons

Per our database, about 20% of Durons are hitting 1Ghz. There's some anecdotal evidence the percentage may be rising, but that remains to be seen.

TBirds

Looking at the database for TBirds is complicated because there's no less than four types: slot A aluminum, slot A copper, socket A aluminum, and socket A copper. It looks like the aluminum TBirds rarely hit 1Ghz; while the copper ones usually do.

Clearly, you want a copper TBird. They have been tough to find at a reasonable price, though, just about all 750 TBirds I've seen are aluminum. It looks like copper 750s were made in week 24, and not much longer than that, presumably to cover aluminum production shortfalls, or just to get some test processors out there.<


If I'm mistaken, I stand corrected.

[YahooDave]

So, let me see if I have this straight, when looking for the color of your T-Bird/Duron you need to look at the, what appears to be silicon of some sort, that is around the core. Now my core is red but the "sealant" around the core is blue so do I have a "Blue" T-Bird?

[kat]

this is the info your all looking for ;D

i know that i read somwere that all 1ghz and higher chips made after 6/2000 are manufactured with copper interconects....i just cant remember where i read it ill keep looking

http://www1.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/result/1,1651,1256,00.html

[jmy]

does anyone sell blue/copper 700-750 tbird or duron cpu's ??

[Staz]

This looks pretty green to me. Is it blue or green?

[Staz]

How about this one. Is it blue? or am I looking at the wrong thing? (actual question and not just trying to be a smart ass)

[Gunjaa]

toms hardware done a test on this puzzling question
ones made in germany the other in america. the colour is simply they dye applied to chipset at end of production.
nothing to do with copper cores and **** just plain simple dye.
doesnt help overclockability at all
bit of a let down for all those dreamers.

[Blackearth]

Gunjaa (Mar 28, 2001 05:43 a.m.):
toms hardware done a test on this puzzling question
ones made in germany the other in america. the colour is simply they dye applied to chipset at end of production.
nothing to do with copper cores and **** just plain simple dye.
doesnt help overclockability at all
bit of a let down for all those dreamers.

hmmm, thats exactly what i thought. . .haven't been to toms hardware site in a long time though, i

[ReTiCuLeX]

My cpu 1.2GHZ AXIA 266 bus is Purple core it looks sex-c lol.

[[OC]_SR20DE]

LOL, that is funny.. I see more of funnier posts in AMD chip forum section than the Intel one.. muuhahahahaha.... I think AMD's are just switching chip core colors to get us users to taste emmm.... try this try that... take that!!!