Which ones might be Tbred "B"?

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I was just wondering which AthlonXP's are Tbred "B"s, or could be. I heard that there is no Tbred A AthlonXP 1800, only Palo and Tbred B. True? And I heard there are 1700's or both kinds.

 

[MeNTaLCaSe]

Dont hold me to this, but i heard the only chips made with the tbred a core were 2400+ and up. Everything below it was either Palomino or tbred b. I also heard the tbred b is a crappy OCer. Tank god i got a palomino.

mike

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

Originally posted by: MeNTaLCaSe
Dont hold me to this, but i heard the only chips made with the tbred a core were 2400+ and up. Everything below it was either Palomino or tbred b. I also heard the tbred b is a crappy OCer. Tank god i got a palomino.

mike

you have it the other way around
tbred b=good
tbred a=good until xp2200+ speeds

 

[MeNTaLCaSe]

Sorry the As and Bs are too complicated for my feeble mind!😛

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

Originally posted by: MeNTaLCaSe
Sorry the As and Bs are too complicated for my feeble mind!😛

lol
its all good
i always mix stuff around too, which doenst help in school grrr :|

anyways my above post was just a fyi, for future reference 🙂

 

[MeNTaLCaSe]

I dont do much in school ne more (senioritis) So it really doesnt bother me. Only when i forget to sleep. I hate when i do that

 

[cheapgoose]

this might help

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: MeNTaLCaSe
Dont hold me to this, but i heard the only chips made with the tbred a core were 2400+ and up. Everything below it was either Palomino or tbred b. I also heard the tbred b is a crappy OCer. Tank god i got a palomino.

mike

Palomino's are bad overclockers. 😀

Tbred A or B depending on clock speed would both be decent overclockers... XP1700 TBred is a fantastic overclocker. TBred 2400 is also good.

 

[bgeh]

well, i just saw this at x-bit labs

linky😀

never thought there will be any t-bred-B's for athlon xp 1700+ and 1800+
but it will take a long time to get it because it needs time to go through the supply chain🙁

 

[MeNTaLCaSe]

My friend got his 2000+ palomino to 1993 with air cooling. It cant be that bad

 

[CaptnKirk]

Palamino cores - the .18 micron die are the SQUARE ones - on XP 1500 up to XP2100.

The T'Bred 'A' was the first .13 Micron core, it is slightly smaller, and RECTANGULAR, not square, for the XP2200+.
They quickly redesigned and built in an extra metal layer, as they were having development problems - hence 'Rev. B'

In the rush to produce a bunch of 'Good' XP2200's and move up to the Barton cores for the XP24xx and up,
there appears to have been an overproduction, so the release of T'bred XP1700+'s have what most likely are
de-tuned XP2400+'s where the locking feature is ON below mulitplier X12 - but there is NO LOCKING ABOVE X12.5.

There are reports of the XP1700+ being installed, BIOS features turned on to set multipliers at 13 or 13.5 and the
BIOS reporting the chip to be an XP2400 or an XP2600, not too shabby for a $ 59 CPU.

AMD is backfilling the XP1700+ Paliminos with the revised XP1700+'s as T'Breds. Gotta get one.