Are all new Slot A Athlon's T-birds?

[CentralScrutinizer]

I'm seeing good prices on 850mhz slot A Athlon's now (e.g., $153 from Buy.com (with coupon) for retail w/ fan).

Questions is, will I be getting a Thunderbird? Buy.com and Onvia ship via Ingram Micro, and inventory is usually latest from AMD.

Can anyone report whether retail 850+ SlotA's from AMD are T-birds?

 

[CentralScrutinizer]

<what happened?>

 

[VladTrishkin]

Just make sure any Athlon has 256K of L2 cache, thats all you need to know.

 

[Vpham97]

Buy.com show a picture of a slotket, but they are selling you a socket A version! Socket A version is what you would want anyway. Just look at the size of the cache. Remember to use the $30 off $150 coupon. You miss out on free shipping already.

I bought a 800 socket A from them two months ago w/ the classic slot Athlon picture on it.

Btw, I also bought a Duron 700(~$70 w/ 3 yrs. warranty).

 

[CentralScrutinizer]

Actually, I didn't even refer to the picture, but the product description instead:

Slot A Athlon from Buy.com

Although the description refers to 128K cache, I've heard some come with 256k anyway (i.e, T-Bird). Just curious is anyone has bought this from Buy.com

Onvia has the same chip for about the same price, but no coupon:

Onvia's Slot A 850 Athlon


Hey, I'd get a Duron if I didn't already have a Slot A board

 

[fastvideo]

got mine yesterday, slota T-bird 900 fromnullat $197.

 

[fastvideo]

from azzo.com

 

[jonnyGURU]

Dude!

That's 128K of LEVEL ONE cache!!!

THEY ALL HAVE 128K OF LEVEL ONE CACHE!

Don't buy that CPU expecting a Thunderbird. You may be disappointed.