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Hardware: AthlonXP 4000+ pic = fake!
Posted on Friday, January 03 @ W. Europe Standard Time by sensemann

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Mmmhhh. The guys at news.mydrivers.com have posted a picture of an Athlon XP 4000+ with 366MHz FSB.
Read more for the picture and why I'm almost sure it's fake.



I'm kinda sceptic as always.. but on the first look it looks ok.
Source says it's a Barton core with 366MHz FSB.

Strange thing about that is though, that the cpu markings aren't correct, at least not as they used to be.

The ID starts with 'AMD', while Athlon XP CPUs have an 'AXD' as first three letters.

The 'D' after '4000' stands for OPGA wich is ok, the following 'A' as voltage doesn't fit as well. There is no A, and has never been. Usual core voltage IDs have been letters like U,M and K.

Next should be a letter indicating the die temperature, but instead there's a number. Normally a number follows the temp, indicating the size of the L2 cache. A '3' would mean 256K, but Barton is supposed to have 512K, isn't it?

The 'D' at the end of the first set of numbers stands for 333MHZ FSB, that's why the 366 following (which fits in no coding scheme AMD has used so far) don't really work.

What's true now? Well, for me it's a fake, since the CPUID is totally wrong, and I doubt AMD would just throw their numberings overboard and make a new one, which makes no sense.










 
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Re: AthlonXP 4000+ pic = fake! (Score: 1)
by Razer on Friday, January 03 @ W. Europe Standard Time
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Yea thats a fake if ever i did see



Re: AthlonXP 4000+ pic = fake! (Score: 1)
by KIOTI on Friday, January 03 @ W. Europe Standard Time
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Not that it really matters, but I zoomed in on this pic with Photoshop. I zoned on the black box and saw digital areas where it looked like the image was actually altered. It's very hard to see, but something just is not right. My vote= FAKE.



Re: AthlonXP 4000+ pic = fake! (Score: 1)
by JLP on Friday, January 03 @ W. Europe Standard Time
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I also think it's a fake. AMD has no time for this. they are mostly just focusing on Opteron and Athlon64 now.



Re: AthlonXP 4000+ pic = fake! (Score: 1)
by JizzyJesus on Sunday, January 05 @ W. Europe Standard Time
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Yah it's certainly fake, i been editing pictures for a while i know what it looks like when there is some digital stuff, that certainly just looks out of place down there, i see color patterns that wouldn't be in a picture unless modified.



Re: AthlonXP 4000+ pic = fake! (Score: 1)
by Khadafie on Monday, January 06 @ W. Europe Standard Time
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Well the Copyright of 1999 is a small give away. The copyright usually is the date that the product was released. So it should be at least 2002, right ?

As far as I know prototypes don't have a copy right at all.









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