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sparks
03-16-01, 08:57 AM
Just did a look for 1.2 266 and 5 or six sites have oem and retail chips.
2 questions

1) why are they all talking about blue core on the oem and copper conductors on the retail?
Check atacom and they have blue and copper conductors on every AMD chip.
Now aren't all 1.2 chips copper conductors?

2) Been several post hinting about 1.2 266 chips OC higher than the 200 chips, any truth to this?

Thanks for any comments I just hate to have to read thru the hype without saying BS to everything I read.

sparks
Sohryu Asuka Langley
03-16-01, 09:51 AM
well my local comp store has 2 trays of k7s... a 1g try and a 1.2 266 tray on display.. tak eyour pick when you buy.. the 1.2s were all red and teh 1g were blue
seabhac
03-16-01, 01:42 PM
I read yesterday in a review that AMD said there are "no" copper interconnects on this core series. They didn't think the current (copper) technology was worth changing their production. Supposedly they addressed the New factory (can't remember where this is) and said they don't make them with copper either.

The reviewer said to look for copper in the .13 micron process and not before. Maybe the new factory makes a tighter core or something but it's not supposed to have copper in it.
diehrd
03-17-01, 04:24 PM
Dresden germany is set up and does make the copper cores you can find this info at AMD.
Bovon
03-17-01, 08:57 PM
Yup, thats right...and Dresden is the only plant that fabs the copper core jobs. The Austin Texas plant only fabs the aluminum core cpu's and they do not O/C nearly as well as the copper core ones do...and they run hotter. I have heard...fairly reliably, that the plant in Dresden is, or was shut down for retooling..and the only processors that were being shipped in recent months were aluminum.
kat
03-17-01, 09:02 PM
look here

http://www1.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/result/1,1651,1256,00.html
Steamer
03-18-01, 06:26 AM
I got my 1.2 266 Blue Core w/ 1 year warranty from Atacom. It is a AXIA CPU. Am I lucky or what?
sparks
03-18-01, 09:36 AM
Steamer, about as lucky as you can get.
Thats the one the they are saying will fly.

please post what you get from it

sparks
diehrd
03-18-01, 11:53 AM
AMD A1200ams3c
AXIA0107GPAW


I am at 1.46 11x133 Solid as a rock !! Kinda like my chevy truck LOL.

How can I tell what plant this was made at Any one know Here is the last code on the chip Y6044151257.
kat
03-18-01, 12:17 PM
look at this

http://www1.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/result/1,1651,1258,00.html