Shopping for AMD Athlon XP 2000+
Today I recieved a call from my uncle, He informed me that his motherboard had some problems and he wanted to replace it. He wanted to buy a new motherboard, but didn't know which one to choose from. The only thing he knew was that, he had an AMD processor(purchased nearly 4-5 years ago) with a number called "2000". He had little/no information regarding the motherboard or the type of processor. Since I am Intel fanboy, I kind of always had trouble with the naming conventions regarding AMD processor line. So with this "2000" number in hand, my journey began to find a suitable motherboard for my uncle.
The first stop was obvious, the AMD site. They had a neat little search bar at the top. I typed in 2000, 2000+, amd 2000+ and various other combinations. But unfortunately most of them spewed out some old news related to Windows® 2000 Server !!!! Cool.
Googling for "amd 2000", I came to realize that(from the search results) the name of the actual product is AMD Athlon XP 2000+. Cool;
So ,The next stop was wikipedia. This search landed me up in the page -List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors. From this page, it was clear that this processor had a frequency of 1667 MHz, 256 KiB L2 Cache ,266 MT/s FSB. I also came to know that the part number(I never knew such a number ever existed !) of this processor was AX2000DMT3C
I went back to the AMD site again and searched for AX2000DMT3C and this is what i got.
No results were found for your search.So i tried out ax2000dmt3c(the same query as before, but now in small leters) and this was the resulting page(see below)
Your query is too restrictive.
You might want to try ax2000dmt3c:
Cool, back to google again, googled for AX2000DMT3C and found this link from geeks.com. Nice, now just a quick glance through the page showed this :No results were found for your search.
Try changing some of the words in your query.Tips for better results:
- Check your syntax.
- Make sure to use the correct spelling.
- Use the correct case (uppercase for capitalized names, lowercase for common words and phrases).
- Use a comma to separate capitalized names or phrases.
For example: Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin
Motherboard that supports an AMD XP 2000+ 1.67GHZ Socket A CPU .
A little more google revealed that I(i mean my uncle) needed a 462 Socket A motherboard and details of vendors providing this motherboard can be found here. And hence the journey ends here.
But coming back to amd, for a last try I headed on to Desktop Processor Solutions page and guess what among all the hundreds of amd processors listed, the 2000+ wasn't even listed !!! cool. Is anyone listening ?
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