feipoa wrote:I always thought the engraved AMD DX5-133V16BGC chips had newer datecodes than the ones with the printed white lettering, that is, until I saw this photo. I wonder why they produced these two differences at the same time...
I can't remember having seen these with such early date codes, perhaps these came from another plant which kept producing long after the one producing the white printed ones ceased production of P75?
Anonymous Coward wrote:I believe you can release the tension on those heatsinks by turning them and sliding them off.
This is correct.
These also came for Socket 7 I believe (or could be s4? I'd have to go check), have had one in a box of CPU HSFs somewhere for ages. It's slightly bigger than a s3 one, but the heatsink is kinda pitiful for a Pentium.
Anyway, I have bought some neat stuff locally from time to time, but it's getting more difficult to do so successfully.
These include a SCSI CD burner from oktober 99 and a couple DVD drives (1 also can burn) with silver-colored bezels.
Also got a couple more white-bezeled DVD burners as I figure the black ones will be much more easy to find down the road and I like these white ones more with beige PC cases.
I was going to buy tons of cards from someone, but when I got to his front door the guy turned out to simply not be at home (he had forgotten and was nowhere near) and I haven't had time to make another visit (it's quite a distance).