help on tb!

[perry929]

just got a 1ghz athlon or is it a thunderbird? im kinda confused since i am new to amds. i always though athlons are all slot a.. but anyway, heres t he info on the chip

A1000AMT3B
AJFA 0045BPIW
YS848370039

can you guys tell me whats the overclocking forecast on this chip? and whether t his is a bird or an athlon like it says on the chip.. thanks

 

[Upptown]

Yes! It's a T-bird!!! Here's a breakdown of
of youe product marking ID

A= AMD Athlon
1000= CPU Speed
A= Package type is PGA (socket A)
M= operating voltage (1.75)
T= Case temp (90c)
3= size of L2 cache (256k)
B= max fsb (200mhz)

A1000AMT3B
AJFA 0045BPIW
YS848370039


As far as overclockability ask Jeff Evens...He knows way more than I. But you'll have to provide more inf on your mobo, type of ram, ect...as these will all effect system stability when you try to o/c.

Here's some links to get more info on your cpu. Temp tolerances, voltages and stuff.

http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/techdocs/pdf/23614.pdf

http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/techdocs/pdf/23614.pdf

 

[kn7671]

TBirds came in Slot A briefly then were all Socket A. Durons and Tbirds will be Socket A until they cease production. As for the Athlon name, AMD did not want to confuse customers by changing the name again, or following Intel by calling it the Athlon II, Athlon III, etc... so it is still called the Athlon. The only real differences between the Socket A Tbird and the 2nd gen Athlon Slot A's is the 2nd level cache is now internal inside the CPU running at full speed on the CPU, where as the K7 and K75 core Slot A had the cache running at 1/2 speed or less. So the main contributing factor to the increase in speed of the Tbirds and Durons is the fact the L2 cache is running at full speed. The is basically the same thing Intel did with the Celeron and Pentium III, but AMD uses their cache a little differently.