Palomino?

edited November 2003 in Hardware
I was wondering if this is a palomino, its purple and has no stepping or information on it, other than the usual ASSEMBLED IN MALAYSIA, can anyone tell from my pic?
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  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited November 2003
    Yes Tbreds have the black sticker.

    And what happened to the pore CPU?
  • Al_CapownAl_Capown Indiana
    edited November 2003
    Looks like someone could use some rubbing alcohol.
  • edited November 2003
    Nothings wrong with it, the motherboard died. The cpu is really messy because of all the thermal stuff still on it :o im too lazy to clean it off right now :)
  • edited November 2003
    What does wcpuid show it as?
    If it shows up as an XP it's a T'bred but a T'bird also looks like that too.
    The palomino has a square core and all the surface mount caps and resistors are on the back of the die.
  • NoFutureNoFuture In a 3D world...
    edited November 2003
    I think this is an Athlon Tbird. Its not clear but you can see it on the core, also, tbirds were purple.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited November 2003
    Not a TBred... no Tbred has a ceramic package, afaik.

    It's either a duron or a thunderbird athlon.
  • edited November 2003
    I had a brown T'bred based XP 1800 last march but I haven't seen any since that time.
    As to what it was made out of I have no clue but it wasn't the same material as a T'bird.
  • edited November 2003
    Ill try to get it working and find out in wcpuid
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited November 2003
    That's not brown... it's grey. The brown ones are organic substrates of some kind (I think the green ones are too...). The grey ones are ceramic.
  • edited November 2003
    Yeah I was looking closely at it and I can see where the bridges are connected on the surface of the chip.
    T'bird-I can make out the word athlon under the goop.
  • edited November 2003
    Actually the chip is purple. the picture just has bad lighting
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited November 2003
    You sure you're not colorblind? :D

    AMD never made a purple chip, afaik. Unless you're talking about the core, not the die. The CPU core is purple, yes. But the die is grey.
  • edited November 2003
    I am 100% positive that this chip is purple, only other amd chips ive seen was the Athlon Xp's so i dont know, but this thing is purple

    EDIT//: correction, im colorblind :(
  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    correct me if i'm wrong. and show me some info.

    isn't core and die the same thing??
  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited November 2003
    The die is the raised edge in the middle of the cpu.
  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    isn't the core, the same, rised in the middle??
  • FlintstoneFlintstone SE Florida
    edited November 2003
    here's a pic of an 1100 Thunderbird/200 chip that I've got laying around. under the right light, the ceramic package looks purple. Really.......It does!!
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited November 2003
    Flint, I know it can look purple, since I had a couple of 1.4 TBirds, but normally, it's grey. A very blue-purple grey, but grey nonetheless.
  • FlintstoneFlintstone SE Florida
    edited November 2003
    I know it's grey, but I was just offering some support!! Put it under flourescent light, in front of a monitor with the S-M Forums up on it and WHAMO!! It looks Purple!! Come on, go with me on this one!!! :confused2
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited November 2003
    I was agreeing with you, actually.

    If I had it still, I'd try it. I don't tho... First one died inexplicably, second one I killed and AMD replaced with a 1700+
  • edited November 2003
    :bawling: i dont like being mocked :(

    ;)
  • CreepCreep Hell Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Yea, it's a thunder bird. the 2 I have look purple also.
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Al_Capown had this to say
    Looks like someone could use some rubbing alcohol.

    For real! Clean the goo off and you can probably look up the stepping and find out what it is, if the speed doesn't give it away first.

    I get nervous twitches when I see CPUs covered in goo. I'm not obssessive compulsive (bad speller, yes, o.c., no), but I am totally psycho about cleaning the core before I re-goo and install a chip. :wtf:
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    it can look purple, and it's a thunderbird.
  • edited November 2003
    I will clean it off when i install it
  • edited November 2003
    I got all the info :

    A1000AMT3B
    AVFA 00S1RPAW
    94265270316

    That any good?
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    It's a 1 Ghz Athlon. Unless that's a fantastic stepping, you probably will only get 100-200 mhz OC out of it. And it'll run a little warmer than a Palomino. But hey, if it works, it works. 1 Ghz isn't stone age (yet :) ). I had a Duron 1 Ghz for a long time and it worked great.
  • edited November 2003
    Well its not my main processor, maybe ill make a server for some games or something :)
  • NoFutureNoFuture In a 3D world...
    edited November 2003
    That's a good idea!
    Don't forget to make it FOLD FOLD DLOF!!!111
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Flint,

    Does this make you feel better? :)
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