Athlon w/ Alumium HeatPlate?

[Sir Hitech]

Greebe or other Athlon experts:

Just received the new shipment of parts to build my friend's computer and the Athlon 850(classic) has silver colored Alumium HeatPlate! According to the code on the top, this is a week25 K7-850 and the front plastic case seem identical to others. I have build quite a few Athlon systems(two last week)and all the athlon's cpus had Black HeatPlates. Is this seem legit? Do all the recent Athlons(classic and T-Bird) have Alumium heatplate?

Thanks

[Greebe]

Sounds like AMD is cutting costs. All SlotA cpu's have an aluminum HP. If yours is silver that means they ommitted anodizing it.

[Sir Hitech]

Thanks Greebe! For one moment I thought I got a modefied wanna-be.

Cracked the case open and took off the heatplate. It has a 900 core and 2.9ms cache chips. Hopefully, I can take this baby up to 1100 and beyond!(might need better cooling for the cache chips(1100/3=367!) Wish me luck!

[This message has been edited by Sir Hitech (edited 07 July 2000).]

[Greebe]

I've tested one Athlon 700 with 2.9ns L2's and that one would do 850 cache latency 1:2 ie 425 mHz!

I managed to get this Athlon 700 to run 950 on a FKK32 stable, but not higher (it would boot @ 1 gig but not finish loading win98)... the customer though had prepurchased a Swiftech MC1000 cooler (simply the best!) and I thought I'd see some truely awsome #'s from it... the guy left it at 850! (what a waste

[Sir Hitech]

SilverBack is now stable at 1110(10x111FSB)on Abit KA7 with Alpha7125 HS. Memory(Mushkin rev. 2.0) running at 148(Host CLK+PCI) CAS2. Set mem at HostClk CAS3 and I could do 1160(10x116FSB)stable . GFD will not do 10.5x or I could possiblely go higher. Not too bad with just air cooling. I am not too sure a Swiftech MC1000 could push it significantly higher, but I will take it if your customer doesn't want it.

CPU voltage is at 2.0(yeah yeah, I could shorten my cpu life and fry my harddrives..yadi yada PCI voltage at 3.5 and this baby(beast I meant) runs silky smooth. I have another Athlon 850@1026 and a 750@1026(850core) at 2.0v and those two machines have been crunching Seti non-stop for 2 weeks/a month now. Since my friend is using it for office work and not planning to upgrade for another three to four years, I am keeping SilverBack and giving her the 850@850 instead of 1026. Greebe: I feel your pain...