How to tell stepping without looking at it

[Nick Burns]

I have a 1900+ that came with an old HP system that recently had a tragic over heating accident and burnt up the processor which at the time was a pally. Now it got replaced under warranty and I looked at the chip and it has no sticker on it that tells the stepping. IS there a program that will tell me the stepping so that I know if it is worth getting a new mobo to attempt to OC it?

[{PMS}fishy]

There is no sticker on the pallys. Its stamped on the core.

To my knowledge there is no program that will spit out the steeping for AMDs.

[Nick Burns]

How could it possibly be a pally? I thought that they were not made anymore. I just got the system back with a new processor about a month ago. Are pallies still being made?

[Steven4563]

i reckon its a pally 1900+ was only made in pally cores *thinks anyway*

[AL Romero]

i have had 2 pally's and both has stepping stickers

[Nick Burns]

1900+ was only made in Pally core? Can anyone verify?

[bchur83]

There are a few 1900 Tbreds, but not many, most likely it is a Pally

[Susquehannock]

Originally posted by {PMS}fishy


To my knowledge there is no program that will spit out the steeping for AMDs.

Maybe not the exact stepping, but CPUz will tell which
CPU core you have.
I am looking at my screen right now ... "Code name: Thoroughbred ... Technology: 0.13 ... Revision: B0"

It even says which Northbridge chip you have. :)

[cherryp00t]

no one is stating the obvious..... ALL PALLYS HAVE A SQUARE CORE.. ALL TBREDS HAVE A RECTANGULAR CORE =d you dont need any steppings to tell you that.

[Captain Newbie]

WCPUID is your friend.

[ChillPhatCat]

I just ordered a 1700+ for a friends comp assuming it would be a T-bred for some reason, but it was a pally... 0215... so it looks like there is a lot of old stock floating around... too bad he doesn't want to O/C, it's an AGOIA 9 and booted just fine at 1950 "accidentally" ;)

[Nick Burns]

lol, you "accidentaly" booted your friend's comp at 500MHz OC without building up to it at all? That takes guts to do to your friend's comp. At least it is a dirt cheap processor that you did it on.

[The Coolest]

You can use GCPUID (My sig, red link) It will tell you whether its a Pally or a Tbred.
There's no way to get the stepping throught software, but at least get the chip's revision.