How come AMD includes in their retail box very specific instructions for
mounting the CPU and fan on the motherboard but no multiplier or frequency
specs?

In article <5mQ7c.34813$%(E-Mail Removed)>, "Hank
G." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> How come AMD includes in their retail box very specific instructions for
> mounting the CPU and fan on the motherboard but no multiplier or frequency
> specs?

That is because everything is specified by the part number.

To see a sampling of processors, I like to use this page:

http://www.qdi.nl/support/CPUQDISocketA.htm

If you go to the amd.com website and download a processor datasheet,
there is usually an OPN decoder somewhere in the document. This
page has a small collection of them, and there are other sites on
the web with OPN decoders as well:

http://www.qdi.nl/support/CPUAMDsocketA.htm

HTH,
Paul