Anyone know any info on Engineering sample AMD CPU's?

[ajhockey3]

I'm stumped on this one,
I used to work for AMD and when I quit I was given a gift box with a goodbye card and an AMD CPU inside, I didn't need it so I didn't touch it and I basically forgot about it for a couple years and I found it organizing my storage room. I remembered it and looked online for it
It says AMD Phenom ZD241117K4D12 and 1.25V at the bottem, Pretty standard stuff, But I cannot find ANY info online about this CPU. I think its a AM3 socket, but possibly AM2+
I am struggling to find info on this,
here is a list of known AMD engineering samples
http://www.cpu-world.com/info/AMD/AMD-ES-part-numbers.html
Mine is not on this list, maybe i'm very stupid and this isn't an engineering sample but I assume it is. Any info on this would help

 

[Xtergo]

All i found out is:

ZD241117K4D12 is an AMD Phenom Quad Core CPU @ 2.41GHZ
it resembles the AMD Phenom 9850; its an am3 socket

 

[ajhockey3]

Sounds about right, I will go try to find an old AM2+ board and CPU Z it to see what comes up, I will get back to you in about an hour after I install windows on it

 

[Xtergo]

sorry it is am3, i edited it.

Out of curiosity(i am close to choosing my career): how did u work for amd ? and why left it ?

 

[rgd1101]

Best guess
ZD250117K4D12 Phenom II X4 4 cores / 2.5 GHz / 6MB L3 / socket AM3 100F40h

An unreleased X4 with 2.41 Ghz

 

[ajhockey3]

@Xtergo

I worked for AMD in the customer support department. I saw a job posting on the early days of the internet and I went for it. I was born and raised in Quebec Canada and they were looking for someone who could speak fluent french and know IT, I was hired pretty fast. I worked there for a couple of years but I really missed actually fixing pc's with my hands, not telling someone via Email how to download there drivers. The pay was pretty good. I'm not sure if they still do this by the fact AMD is kinda in the gutter but I could get pretty good discounts on ATI Graphics card and extremely good deals on there CPU's (I worked from the 939 Athlon era to the Phenom Thuban 6 core era). I had a small addiction to buying cheap Athlon X2's or X3's and trying to unlock them, then reselling as unlockable CPU's. Getting cheap GPU's was fun too (though it was only for Reference cards or some Sapphire cards) fondest memory being buying a pair of Sapphire 4890 Atomic's the first GPU's to be clocked at 1Ghz. Another fun part is occasionally I would get sent to Trade shows if the people who normally go were busy or if they wanted a French speaking attendant.

 

[Xtergo]

@Xtergo

I worked for AMD in the customer support department. I saw a job posting on the early days of the internet and I went for it. I was born and raised in Quebec Canada and they were looking for someone who could speak fluent french and know IT, I was hired pretty fast. I worked there for a couple of years but I really missed actually fixing pc's with my hands, not telling someone via Email how to download there drivers. The pay was pretty good. I'm not sure if they still do this by the fact AMD is kinda in the gutter but I could get pretty good discounts on ATI Graphics card and extremely good deals on there CPU's (I worked from the 939 Athlon era to the Phenom Thuban 6 core era). I had a small addiction to buying cheap Athlon X2's or X3's and trying to unlock them, then reselling as unlockable CPU's. Getting cheap GPU's was fun too (though it was only for Reference cards or some Sapphire cards) fondest memory being buying a pair of Sapphire 4890 Atomic's the first GPU's to be clocked at 1Ghz. Another fun part is occasionally I would get sent to Trade shows if the people who normally go were busy or if they wanted a French speaking attendant.

Thankyou bro,

 

[ajhockey3]

No problem, But to be blunt in there financial situation that AMD is in, I doubt there hiring.

 

[ajhockey3]

I installed Windows

eal quick on a make shift PC,and this is my CPU-Z, Maybe its an earlier version of the 9850 before the clock speed was decided