Green Athlon XP ???

[Acetate]

A friend of mine just purchased an Athlon XP 1600 from NCIX.com (Canadian Site).
To our surprise, the packaging is green!
A few sites have indicated that the Green packaging is due in May or June of this year.
Did this fellow get an early green XP 1600?

Thanks in advance.

 

[AndyHui]

Probably an early one.

AMD are changing over to the green fiberglass substrate in line with their company colours.

I thought they were better brown, because you could easily distinguish between an AMD and an Intel processor.

 

[shathal]

Well - you still can, as long as they're fairly recent - i.e.: have the integrated heatspreader.

Otherwise, it'll only take a glimpse to find out if it's an Intel or an AMD by looking at the logo, with the older versions of P3/Celeron that did not have the IHS. I like the IHS - gives the core extra protection, definately a good move .

 

[SuperSix]

Eventually all the XP's will be green, we've been shipping them for 1-2 months now, on and off. It does make it a little confusing ID'ing the parts..

 

[TNOguy]

Is there any truth to the rumor that these new green XP processors won't run in SMP mode any longer?

Thanks

TNOguy

 

[johndoe52]

If it's a more recent release shouldn't it oc better?

 

[Poof]

^bump

Anyone know? I bought a "refurbished" XP 1900 from Newegg and it's all green. Sortof bugged me out to see that but I assumed all of them were like that (since this is my first). Guess not!

Anyone know how good it is? I'm about to give it a go with OCing.

 

[panhead49]

i have a green 2000 in front of me now.......trying to unlock it.......its half the size of my 1.4 tbird.......(bridges).......hope it does well in the o/c department......i do know the 2000 is at the end of the 18 micron prosscess and might not go very high...