Is there a T-Bird in a Slot A Verison

[Specialist]

I have a Slot A Amd processor @900 Mhz How can I check if it's a T-Bird?

 

[Specialist]

I can't believe that nobody knows the answer!

 

[NaughtyusMaximus]

I've seen some for sale on pricewatch. If its a TBird, there shouldn't be much on the card other than the chip itself, whereas the Athlon Classic will have cache chips up the yin-yang.

 

[Whizzy]

It is a original Athlon

Because of the full speed cache that is on-die
with the thunderbird it was only made for socket-A and the original Athlon has off-die cache which is placed besides the core.

uhh..
[NaughtyusMaximus] are you sure ?? are there Slot-A thunderbirds ?? i thought is was not possible because of some timing changes in the core that required a shorter path to the core and back.. ??

 

[Specialist]

My Sisoft Sandra says it's an Athlon T-Bird :
and it also says it's cache multiplier is 1x1 whatever that means?
BTW How come my core voltage varies from 1.74 to 1.76

 

[Specialist]

Somebody else?

 

[2dfx]

Yes there are Slot A thunderbirds around. And yes the timing differences has made them generally incompatible with Via KX-133 chipset motherboards but ok with AMD-750 chipset motherboards. Download CPUID to identify.

 

[SDTom]

As was mentioned, there are some slot A T-Birds out there.
Look on the top edge of the cartridge at the model #.
A classic will start with K7 and the Birds start with A7.
The AMD Irongate chipset boards work well with the Birds.
A VIA KX133 chipset slot A board will only run a slot Bird up to around 800.
The exception is the Asus K7VT wich is modded by Asus for the slot Birds.
There is also a mod that can be done to the K7V to convert it to the "T" so it will run the slot Birds also.

Tom

 

[Deeko]

I have a SlotA TBird. Check how much L2 cache it has. 512 = classic 256 = TBird.