CPU question...

[Shawn]

I installed my T-Bird chip into my KT7A-RAID board this weekend. I got it all up and running on Win98SE with no problems whatsoever...no conflicts, no nothing! That was very gratifying, to say the least.

I have a question regarding the chip, though. I bought it from the Overclockerz Store and I thought it was just a 1 Gig T-Bird that was able to be overclocked to the 1330-1460 range (which is what they were advertising).

I had a friend over helping me do the install and he said the chip was a 1.2 Gig T-Bird. How can I know for sure?
If it's a 1.2 Gig T-Bird, I would assume I can actually take it a little farther than the 1330-1460 range that was advertised.

My friend said the chip was "factory bridged" and the codes we got off the core are:

AVIA
0108FPBW
95063650357

and then off by itself on the corner of the die was 27016


I'm currently just running the thing at 9x133 (with just hstclk) which my friend said should be the stock, non-overclocked settings.


I went to overclockers.com and looked in the CPU database but there wasn't one that matched my numbers. Can anyone help me identify this chip?


Thanks!

[Tachyon]

The first four numbers on the first line (above AVIA) will tell you what it is. If it says 1000 it's 1GHz, 1200 is 1.2GHz, etc. The 0108 means it was manufactured during week 8 of '01.

[Shawn]

Thanks for your reply. I wonder why he (my friend) didn't read off those numbers to me. I have the HSF on the CPU now, so it would be a pain in the butt to remove it and scrape off the compound to see what that number is.


I'm bummed....but thanks for the education!

[oc jason]

Take the HS off again and look at the first 4 numbers in the code-that a sure way to tell what the CORE is-I say core because my chip says 650 on the die but POSTs as a 600 it might be a 1.2 gig chip but post as a 1.0 gig. Whatever the core number is-that is what the chip was tested as!! If you got a 1200 core it should EASILY do 1200 stable. Its worth knowing cause OCing a 1200 would go aot higher than a 1 gig-a 1.2 gig shoud break 1.5 and COULD hit over 1.6 with GOOD cooling

[proze]

does it matter? just overclock it and see how high you can get...

[Yomama]

proze (Apr 26, 2001 06:05 p.m.):
does it matter? just overclock it and see how high you can get...

Right on proze. We know it's an AVIA Core so that should be good for 1.4GHz.

Besides there is no need to remove the HSF.If you set the FSB to 100 and the multiplier to "default" it should boot at it's default multiplier. If it's 900MHz then you have a 1.2GHz CPU running 9x100 instaed of 9x133. If it comes up at 1.2 GHz you have a 1.2 GHz CPU running at 12x100. You do the math for the other possible combinations.

Yo