Stepping

[aphex]

Sorry, im sorta new to the whole AMD market. Just bought myself a 1.2ghz. I was wondering if anyone could enlighten me onto what the whole version stepping business is about or if there is a website you would reccomend me to visit to learn about it all. Thanks in advance.

 

[chizow]

You have to check the core of your CPU to know your exact stepping. I would not recommend doing this unless you are really serious about over-clocking, you are changing or reseating or reapplying thermal compound (or AS2 of course) to your heatsink, or you are worried your retailer ripped you off and OC'ed a lower version t-bird thru the BIOS.

Basically, your t-bird core will tell you all this info, along with the stepping.

If it is a 1.2 gig t-bird you will see the following:

A1200AMS3C
XXXXXzz01YYzz
Xzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

The letters represented by X are commonly referred to as the CPU's stepping. YY will tell you the week it was made, which is also a factor.

Chiz