model 6

[lithium85]

Hi everyone, i need to know how can i notice if an oem amd xp is model 6,8 or 10???
maybe it is shown in the stepping number...
I have a SY-K7vta-pro so i need a model 6 processor
the one i have on sight to buy is a 1700+
thanx!

[Tin]

look at the stepping. is that per chance a Tbred B 1700+? if it is, you may have a chip thats capable of 2500MHz or more .

[lithium85]

this is the stepping: AXDA1700DUT3C 9226716280926 JIUCB 0325UPGW 1999 AMD

What can you tell me??? which model is it?

[Tin]

TBred B 1700+, made in april of 2003, 1.6V default voltage, unlocked multipliers. most usually hit about 2000MHz on good air cooling. the U in DUT3C means it has 1.6V default. now if it was DLT3C, it would have a 1.5V default voltage...those are the ones that can hit 2500MHz+. my 1800+ Tbred B is a DLT3C chip.

[Kiwi]

According to the motherboard manual for one of the PC's here (Gigabyte's GA-7zxe, I'm pretty sure; I'll come back and edit this when I get the manual out of the car, if my memory slipped again), I can run up through an XP 2100, not a "+", it seems. But it's the earlier model with 0.18 tracings, not the more current 0.13 version.

So far, I can't tell what the difference is between Model 6 and 8, and/or whether either of those are still in the retail channel. That system currently has a "T-Bird" 1.333 in it, and could use a little more juice.

[Tin]

with a BIOS update it will support any AMD processor thats 266FSB, except mobile 2500+ chips.

[Kiwi]

The past few days have been my first exposure to the names of the AMD cores, and the Model 6 apparently came AFTER the T-Bird. The motherboard is Gigabyte's 7ZXE, rev 1.0, a board that supports PC-100 and 133 SIMMs, not DDR's, and the compatability list didn't reflect any adjustment for BIOS upgrades, which are available, and which I do have a copy of on my hard drive from when I was on their site.

(I paused, and the other answer you made has been acknowledged first. Your comment about the relative value, or lack of it, for Gigabyte, is a new datum. The 7ZXE was not one of the Gigabyte boards with twinned BIOS chips.)

If I ask Newegg or ZipZoomFly or any other online discount PC parts supplier (or our local equivalent, "Izzy's") for a Palomino 2100, will their order fillers know what I asked for? Is it a special order item, or perhaps unlikely to still be in the retail channel?

My primary thrust in information gathering over the past days has been aimed at the price break point between AMD 2800+ and 3000+ XP processors, as part of a major upgrade to a P-II/400 that has an Intel SE440BX MB (that I've hated for about four years and about which I previously would feel that I couldn't discard it quite yet). The only things moving forward will be the storage devices and the backup modem that are in that box now.

But while collecting data for that transplant, I also took the side trips about the Palomino and about P-II's. I was a bit surprised to find that the only MB's that seem to have been made while the P-II was out almost all seemed to sport the 440 chip set in one form or the other. I was very very surprised. The MB I had was always problematic, and I hated the Phoenix BIOS in it.

Chances are seriously strong that at least the MB from that old PC is headed for the landfill. Getting something really cheap in the way of repllacement MB (and perhaps CPU as well, since I see both together quoted at $5-6 some places) from that period to match that particular full tower box and those particular PC 100 SIMMs seems vaguely just a wish fulfillment excercise of some sort based on how very long that old machine has haunted me.

[CaptTuna]

Ok. Model 6 is Palomino and model 8 is Thoroughbred. I hope that helps.

[Tin]

7 is Tbred A, 8 is Tbred B, and 10 is barton...no clue what 9 is