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Does anyone know what chip this is ?
I have 3 but cant find any info on them .
Reads.
Intel ‘07
INTEL CONFIDENTIAL
QCZZ ES A4
EU806 01 00000069
C8 04A444

Thanks,




http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/6761/intelchip.jpg

its a intel internal engineering sample. you will most likely need to figure out what socket type it is and drop it into a motherboard and run cpu-z or something to get all the info about it.

1) Where did you get them from...
2) stick them in your system and see what CPU-Z says

Looks like an LGA1366 CPU from what I can see from the contacts on the top of the chip.

I got them from a friend (when I asked were they came from he said that’s confidential too,,so I don’t know ) they were mounted on two server boards each board had two CPU’s but both boards were damaged. Physical damage, one had a cap broken loose. They said testing only on them..
I tossed the boards and saved the CPU,s there was no DDR 3 ram Mounted on the boards slots were all empty.
Boards had little info as well no stickers (except for test only )I only know they had intel chips sets with huge heatsinks with heatpipes.

So i need to get a board but not really sure which socket to get.

well if it's server, and looking at the CPUs, I would have to say 1366 platform. also going by date, must be a Nahelem quad core i7 or xeon ES

cool thanks, I think your right on the money.

make sure you post up a CPUz screenshot once you get it running!

I'll do that.. thanks again!

CpuZ results






Thanks you were both correct as you can see.

odd that a CPU with those specs is not even listed at the Intel.com ARK, closest thing is a Xeon E5530 because it has 8M and HT, but the 5530 runs at 2.4GHz stock via 18x multiplier. it can't be the E5504 because the 5504 doesn't have HT which yours clearly does

Its seems to get different results depending on which program I use to identify it. Seems to run cool though. I’ll have to test the other 3 and see if they work too. Maybe eBay them. I don’t know?

well the older applications don't know how to read the CPUID because they don't have the code translation since the E55xx wasn't around back then (especially for CPUz 1.34 LOL) maybe a future release of cpuz will pick it up, but i wouldn't count on it, seems it is an unreleased xeon CPU and since it isn't out by now it won't be, because the newer xeons have 12M cache instead of your 8M (56xx=12, 55xx=4 or 8.)

its odd that all of the applications pick up the default clock as 2.00GHz yet it is running 2.4 (unless you overclocked it, verify yes/no plz)

if it does default to 2.4GHz then it must be an early sample of the E5530

Why does it read 8 cores though? Should only be 4 correct?

rought wrote:Why does it read 8 cores though? Should only be 4 correct?

Hyperthreading, 4 physical cores and an additional 4 logical cores, the 4 HT threads equate to a little better than 2 Physical cores in actuality (every additional thread provides the performance of a half of a core, so 2 threads effectively make an additional core, for the applications that can utilize it), making it slightly better than the Phenom II X6's, except when applications can only use physical cores, like DiRT2 and BF:BC2 where native 6-core CPUs will be better

I see. Thanks a lot skier you really know your stuff!
I appreciate your time..