September 24th, 2002, 10:05 PM
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| | Fur ballin
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|  How to tell CPU stepping?
I would like to find out what stepping of my AMD 1600+ I have in my computer.
Since its already installed and I don't really want to pull off the heatsink is there a program a can run in XP to tell me what it is?
Thanks....
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September 24th, 2002, 10:07 PM
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| | dword to your moms
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| AFAIK there isnt a program that can tell you the stepping of your chip. I may be wrong though.
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September 24th, 2002, 10:44 PM
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| | dword to your moms
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I just ran it on an XP chip. It gives the stepping as "2" much like windows will report it. The stepping he is looking for is the AGOIA or something like that. AFAIK the only way to get that if off of the processor itself. Unless you can correlate the number reported to the actual stepping. May be worth a look. | |
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September 24th, 2002, 10:47 PM
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| | Fur ballin
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| Quote: Originally posted by krohnjw
I just ran it on an XP chip. It gives the stepping as "2" much like windows will report it. The stepping he is looking for is the AGOIA or something like that. AFAIK the only way to get that if off of the processor itself. Unless you can correlate the number reported to the actual stepping. May be worth a look. | Right, thats basically what I was thinking as far as WCPUID reports mine is a version "2" as well. I don't think it really tells me anything.
Hmm... guess its time to rip my heatsink off......  | |
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September 24th, 2002, 10:49 PM
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| | Ultimate Member
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Excuse my ignorance, but why does this matter? | |
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September 24th, 2002, 10:52 PM
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| | Fur ballin
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| Quote: Originally posted by Praetorian
Excuse my ignorance, but why does this matter? | The stepping of the core tells you basically when the chip was made and what version it is.
Sort of like better revisions of the same chip.
I have a XP1600+ in my system right now which is about a year old. I just bought a new chip for a second PC I am setting up at home and wanted to see if there was any difference between the two for overclocking purposes. (without having to take off my heatsink and clean the core of the cpu in my machine that is running). | |
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September 24th, 2002, 10:53 PM
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| | Where's the beef?
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Some stepping overclock better than others - or so I've heard. Never tried it myself, I prefer stability over speed.
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September 24th, 2002, 11:00 PM
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Also it's very important for SMP with mult CPU's.
Doesn't AMD have any utilities that do this at all? I'm sure Intel has one. Bit poor on AMD's part.
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