----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Glazier" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 12:34 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Upgrading Processor Glitch


> I think the new core thing only applies to AMD chips in the Thoroughbred
> and Barton series.  The Palomino series never changed from 180 nm (as far
> as I know.)  The package changed from model 6 to model 8., but I'm not
sure
> the core changed with that.  (AMD makes this very hard to look up.)
> If it did, AMD is getting as good as Intel as far as making this
impossible
> to understand...
>

XP processors do come in different cores at same speed.  Only that old core
is harder and harder to find. at the moment, I only get XP2000+ in older
core, all other speed changed to new "B" core (step 8).

> If there is an "A" or "B" after "XP, it is likely the newer Thoroughbred.
>
> Palominos and Thoroughbreds overlapped in a very *general* way (as far as
> speed only), from 1700+ to 2100+ (where Palominos ended).
>

All current 1700+ and above are changed over to T-B core, apart from 2000+
(don't know why, but I'm in Australia, so things may be different).

> > The XP-SP1 thing might be a company policy against that SP... (??)
> Or a limit set in SUS... (??)
>
>

There is no such thing.  It is all to do with M$ anti-piracy policy, when
they release service pack, they block known CD keys that used by pirated
copy, same thing also happens to M$ Office service pack, so ...

Jun Qian

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