Athlon T'bird L1 Bridges Not Cut?

[SCompRacer]

Dec 28th found me running to my supplier to get this 900 Athlon T'bird with a KT7. He had already put in the CPU and cooler on MB, so I never got a look at it.

When my Arctic Silver came in, I pulled it out, having my trusty mechanical pencil and magnifier at the ready...but my L1 bridges were all intact. Never cut.

So what gives, did AMD miss one?

[Greebe]

How about a date of manufacture, etc... a pic would suffice.

[SCompRacer]

This is the best my digital would do, blurry but discernable. You can see some of the other L bridges are cut.

I will have to pull the cooler off to check numbers. Will all info be on top of chip?

[Greebe]

What I'm looking for is etched into the substrate (cap, slug, etc).

[Sir Hitech]

The initial production AMD SocketA cpu's have L1 bridges traced. So chances are you have a early production Tbird or a engineering sample. AFAIK there isn't any major disadvantage/advantage when comes to overclocking.

[Alfie]

There out there!
When I ordered my Tbird 700 from Lynn computer,back when all that speculation was going on about AMD cutting the pins on the bottom of the cpu,I requested that if the pins were cut, to cancel the order.
Lynn thought I meant the L1 bridges and sent me one with the bridges intact!
This one failed and had it replaced,second one also had it's bridges intact!
The ID of this cpu is ADEA0021DPFW
It had been reported that some cpus would be released with the bridges uncut.
I believe my experience bears this out and as witnessed here.

[Jake]

Hi!

This may sound silly, but a few days ago I was visiting my local hardware pusher to check out what was new on his shelves. When I entered his shop he was talking to a customer who had just purchased a 1.2 GHz T'bird, and they were quite surprised to see that the bridges on this chip were uncut.

It was not a special order of a preproduction chip, just a regular "through the ordinary channels" order.

I did not check to see the production number, but I will go back to the store and ask if he got more of these or it was just a "freak" shipment.

Regards,

Jake

btw. I'm no Athlon expert, but I remember that they said these new CPU's were a different color than "the old ones". It was purple, not the "old" green color.

[This message has been edited by Jake (edited 11 January 2001).]