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Title: Question about the VSA-100 chip.
Post by Thandor on 21.08.05 at 16:05:35

Hello,

I had a question regarding the VSA-100 chip. Right beneath the '200' of the Part Number stands 'AS'.

Does anyone know what is means ?

http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/6742/dd1b0fn.jpg
Napalm chip.

Title: Re: Question about the VSA-100 chip.
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 22.08.05 at 02:13:29

hmm I think I do have an idea on that, it's like a core type, like you have with Athlon and Pentium chips and so on.

My an Athlon with the AHJK core could perfom better than an Athlon with the AJKI core, so a VSA-100 with an AS core might be btter than a VSA-100 with an AB core for Overclocking to greater speeds, better heat dispersion and things like that.

That kind of idea, but I may be mistaken here ofcourse ;)

Title: Re: Question about the VSA-100 chip.
Post by Thandor on 01.09.05 at 20:57:57

Hmm, after a bit of searching I didn't found VSA-100 chips without or a different marking.

I assume that 'AS' doens't represent the 'stepping' of the chip ?

Title: Re: Question about the VSA-100 chip.
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 02.09.05 at 13:29:32

could be, I remember AMD and Interl do that for thier Central Processing Units ;D