How to tell if its a thunderbird

[VladFrost]

Hello

Just wanted to ask this might sound stupid to some how do you tell thunderbird from athlon. As far as i understand they never made socket tbirds, i mean it says athlon on top posts on the mobo as athlon how do you tell?

 

[paulip88]

I think what you meant to say was that they don't make socket athlon classics. If it is a socket CPU and it says Athlon, it is a TBird. If it is a slot TBird, I'm not sure how you can tell the difference.

 

[mamisano]

If it is an SlotA, you can peek inside the case to see if there are cache chips on either side of the processor.

Regards,

 

[VladFrost]

thanks

 

[Zephyr]

Assuming we're talking slot-A processors...
just look at the serial # ... if it's a Classic Athlon it reads K7xxx (where xxx is the speed)
it it's a Tbird it reads Axxxx (were xxxxx is the speed)

 

[mamisano]

Even easier