Someone here refresh my memory!

[Tullphan]

While in the market for a socket a cpu for a spare machine, I was looking on eBay & spotted some that were green & some that were brown.
What was the difference besides the color? Wasn't one color supposed to be better than the other as far as overclocking and/or heat?

 

[Celeryman]

I think the Barton cores where the darker color but I could be mistaken. The Barton core had more cache I am pretty sure. Been a while.

 

[Dahak]

they where both color, and if i remember right its more which plant they where built at as ive seen the same models with different colors substrates

 

[Markfw]

Ask for a closeup picture of the core, then you can lookup the numbers and find out for sure.

 

[Killrose]

Get the model number of the processor and then the production date code. The PCB color has nothing to do with overclocking capabilities or whether not it is a Barton. Make sure your motherboard supports the proper CPU, some socket A boards that supported the older Thunderbird cores do not suport the XP t-breds or Barton series.

 

[Avalon]

They're both brown and green. I've got a few in front of me at work right now. Two Thoroughbred B cores and an older Palomino. The Palo and one T-bred are brown, the other T-bred is green. Both look to be made in the same plant in Malaysia.

*shrug*

Used to have a brown Barton, and then green XP-mobiles.

 

[colonel]

I still have a 2500+Barton , green with a violet head and 2400+ Barton Mobil brown.

 

[betasub]

The older socket A CPUs I've seen used a brown ceramic package (which made it easy to pencil connect the exposed L bridges). The newer ones that I used had a green organic(?) package (making pencil modding more difficult). I don't think the switch was FAB/revision/die size related.

 

[Dainas]

The cheaper 333mhz bartons were always green organic, where as the 400mhz 3200+ and 3000xp where in a brown organic package, mobile could be both. Older palomino XPs also where brown and some thoroughbreds were a beige brown organic...otherwise green being the common colour.

Only going back to the Thunderbird Athlon days will you find ceramic packaging.

 

[bloodugly]

Originally posted by: Dainas
The cheaper 333mhz bartons were always green organic, where as the 400mhz 3200+ and 3000xp where in a brown organic package, mobile could be both. Older palomino XPs also where brown and some thoroughbreds were a beige brown organic...otherwise green being the common colour.

Only going back to the Thunderbird Athlon days will you find ceramic packaging.

You are incorrect on the barton colors. The 333mhz bartons can be both green or brown. I actually have a brown XP 2500+ 333mhz sitting here by me.

The 400mhz XP chips could be either color also. I've had green 400FSB 3000+ and 3200+ chips before.