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AMD AthlonXP 3000+ ( 2666Mhz Prototype ) Pics. **UPDATE** FAKE

That chip looks a little suspect to me.

First off, it has the passive components on the top, like the older Tbird or the new Thoroughbred should have. Secondly, the die is longer than the Palomino. This shouldn't be possible unless they added more L2 cache to it or it really isn't the Palomino core. I think someone doctored up a Tbird with PS. Look at the die itself, it's almost two dimensional (the light colored edge across the top looks fake to me). Also, why would they skip the 2400+, 2500+ and "jump" to 2.6Ghz?
 
I blew up the picture in photoshop and it looks like just about every item on that "core" was cut and pasted on there. I'm no PS expert, but it looks pretty obvious to me.
 


<< I blew up the picture in photoshop and it looks like just about every item on that "core" was cut and pasted on there. I'm no PS expert, but it looks pretty obvious to me. >>



Just did the same thing in photoshop...This thing is totally fake. Not even a good one at that.
 
Not to mention the fact that the ceramic packaging the guy was trying to imitate was that of the Tbird when he should have known that all AthlonXPs use the brownish organic package
 
Yes it has been photoshopped. It's a ceramic PGA Tbird. If I was going to do this I would have started off with a green Palomino at the very least! You could take it further by matching the bridges to a chart and figure out what speed the original chip was as well!

Cheers!
 
Hey NFS4, is AMD planning on putting a head spreader on their chips anytime soon?

Just curious because the core looks like it could be easily damaged by a heavy heatsink.
 
This is pathetic, you don't even need photoshop, just look at the prototype lettering, you can make out a fuzzy in the background around it. Engineering samples shouldn't look like that either, I've seen intel's and they don't put prototype on them.

 


<< Engineering samples shouldn't look like that either, I've seen intel's and they don't put prototype on them. >>


Intel's engineering samples say "Intel Confidential"
 
Looks like our dear late friend PCResources is hanging out at the Xbit Labs forums now :disgust:

This is exactly the type of thing that he used to do...
 
Whatever happened to 'PCResources'? I know he was notorious for saying things like: "Oh I have something super great but an NDA restricts what I can say about it... <taunt><taunt>"

 


<< Whatever happened to 'PCResources'? I know he was notorious for saying things like: "Oh I have something super great but an NDA restricts what I can say about it... <taunt><taunt>" >>



He's dead. KIA in the Afghani theater, a true hero of the Swedish (or something like that) Special Forces 'til the end.
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