how to identify the core??

[helloguy]

juz bought an XP 1800+ with AGOIA core,can anybody explain the markings to me? Thanks~ I copied it down here :

AX1800 DMT3C
AGOIA 0221TPCW

 

[bozo1]

AX1800 means AMD XP 1800+ desktop processor of course.

D - Organic Pin Grid Array
M - Voltage M = 1.75V
T - Maximum Die Temperature T = 90-degrees Celcius
3 - Size of L2 Cache 3 = 256K
C - FSB C = 266MHz

0221 denotes 2002, week 21 for when it was manufactured.

And the rest of the stuff I don't recall.

 

[helloguy]

wow...lots of info,thanks man~!!! so its manufactured in 2002 ? this is weird,as I see some 1999(c)AMD on the core as well...so is it 1999 or 2002 ??? Am I buying a 3yrs old product????

 

[dude]

I can guarantee you that you aren't buying a 3 year old processor. AX processors werent released until late last year. 😉

That's just a copyright, don't mind it anything. If you look at the anandtech.com main page, it says copyright 1997-2001, does that mean that the news here is 4 years old? Oh my god! I wrote this post 4 years ago! :Q 🙂

 

[helloguy]

hehe okie!!! 🙂 phew~

so what are those AGOIA 0221TPCW means>??

 

[JamesM3M5]

The AGOIA is the "stepping" of the processor. I may be wrong here, but I understand that it identifies the masks used to create the chip. I ordered an 1800+ from Newegg.com last month. I got a Palomino core (the 128mm^2 core) on a brown wafer with a AGKGA (or something like that) stepping. AGOGA is regarded as one of the better steppings for OCing.

Remember several years ago when Intel had a "bug" in its first run of Pentium 60/66 processors? That required a new stepping to correct. I had to return my bad processor and Intel sent me a new one with the latest revisions.

JamesM