Has ne1 actually seen a t-bird/duron without multiplier pins???

[dukdukgoos]

???

 

[toph99]

there was a link to a picture somewhere on one of these boards... i think that <l>www.insanehardware.com</l> has one, but i'm not positive

 

[dukdukgoos]

I heard that all the pictures on the net right now were doctored...to show what a chip would look like without the pins. I want to know if ne1 has seen one of these pinless chips 'in the wild'.

 

[k2lme]

See
http://www.insanehardware.com/scoopage/amdpinless/

 

[k2lme]

Or, maybe not ...
see
http://viahardware.com/index.htm

 

[johncar]

insanehardware.com has removed pics...admitted he was fooled by a friend...sad....explanation/apology at site.
John C.

 

[Ulysses]

Well, here's this.

 

[johncar]

Ulysses,
Read your link again very carefully. This was the original photo of what a chip with pins removed &quot;would look like&quot;...awardmag.com &quot;admitted&quot; it was a Photoshop creation...he did it to demo the &quot;what if&quot; situation...no deception intended.

But the original pic had the wrong pins, FID, blanked out, so we contacted award and told them about the BP_FID pins. They did a revision with explanation, (before the insanehardware fiasco), and that's what you see now...still &quot;what if&quot;...no claim that will be done. You must have done some &quot;speed reading&quot; and missed that detail.
Gets us sometimes too.;-)
John C.

 

[Ulysses]

johncar:

Thanks. I thought that was the case, but wanted to put up the link just to present it. For a while I had been trying to find a reliable pic of the missing pins, and I had hoped that this was what I was looking for. I guess that it is (in the sense that the pic is what a real chip should look like without the pins), but at the same time it is not!!

Reminds me of going jackalope hunting once upon a time.

To www.awaremag.com's credit, they did clearly label their article and pics (&quot;Model...New Image...Edited Image&quot; etc.).