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Which one of these 286 CPUs?

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First post, by aaronkatrini

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Hi all,
A friend of mine was cleaning his attic and found among other stuff these 9 AMD 286 CPUs. And they look so cute, so tiny. I asked him for one, just for the looks (so cute and tiny). They should be the same, all 12mhz pieces...Which one do you think I should choose?
My interest for the time being to the 286 era is about just curiosity, no actual interest to build a system, and the cpu I will get will be put on on a frame for displaying purposes.

Thanks in Advance! 😀

Reply 1 of 4, by TimWolf

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If there is a pic it didn't u/l. Following.

Reply 2 of 4, by aaronkatrini

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Oh, sorry my bad...!!!
Here is the photo: https://imgur.com/a/N7ksERI

(next to a 1 Euro Cent coin)

Reply 3 of 4, by Vynix

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Those are CLCC (Ceramic Leadless Chip Carrier) Am286-12s, pretty much your run-of-the-mill 286, nothing less, nothing more. Though that the CLCC variants seem to be on the uncommon side, and I'm not sure if they will even fit into a PLCC (Plastic Leadless Chip Carrier) socket.

Proud owner of a Shuttle HOT-555A 430VX motherboard and two wonderful retro laptops, namely a Compaq Armada 1700 [nonfunctional] and a HP Omnibook XE3-GC [fully working :p]

Reply 4 of 4, by imi

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only for display purposes probably the one in the top left (bottom left if viewed correctly) as it seems to be in best shape and have a clean surface, though the ones with the large AMD logo also look nice ^^

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