Duron Color

[BigChuck]

I work for a small OEM, and I'm looking at a blue, a green, and a pink (purple?) core. I thought blue was copper (and no Durons were supposed to be copper), green aluminum, what he heck is pink?

-BigChuck

 

[rmblam]

The color is only the result of the dye in the polish used at the factory (I have read). Supposedly they have different batches of polish that impart a different color. I can't prove this of course. There was a rumor of Durons coming from the Dresden plant. Everyone was speculating that the off colored (non green) Durons were the ones from Germany. No one has been able to prove this yet to my knowledge.

Can you take a picture of them and post the link?

 

[DaddyG]

Polish it is, but no Durons from Dresden, they are too busy making all the high end (igig plus) BIRDS.

 

[zippy]

All durons are currently aluminum, it doesn't matter what color the core appears to be.

 

[pac1085]

I make computers for people localy a few times a month, and I stumbled upon a 700MHz pink duron. Out of all the 700MHz chips I tested, only the pink one was able to hit 1.1GHz. Somone said the die colors on durons may have something to do with the week that they were manufactured.

 

[HellRaven]

Bingo Vortex. With Durons, the color of the polish has to do with when they are manufactured.

The Austin plant which is the only producer of Durons and also makes some of the lower mhz Tbirds seems to change polish colors more often than Dresden. As far as I know, what they do is just use whatever polish color is available at the time and because of regional and availability differences that is why we see different polish colors between the Dresden and Austin plants.

In the beginning Austin had alot of green polish, now we are seeing other colors. When they first switch polish colors the new color mixes with whats left of the older color producing even stranger colors like brown or cores that are one color on one area and another color on a different area.

 

[BigChuck]

Thanks all...I was looking for that excuse to upgrade into a super-overclockable Duron, guess now I'll do the smart thing and wait for some DDR loving!

-BigChuck