Hyperthreading not working on my cpu

[ani987]

I have an ES Xeon and for some reason the hyper threading just isn't working. any ideas?

 

[RobCrezz]

Can you give some more of your specifications? what model xeon is it (ES is just engineering sample, not a model name)? what motherboard are you using?

 

[Ecky]

Just so you know, engineering samples are all black market "stolen" CPUs. They're officially the property of Intel and were never to be sold, and are often early production samples that may have part of the chip not working properly.

 

[ani987]

@Ecky call the cops then buddy. Does it look like I care?

@RobCrezz the reason I said just ES is because it's a xeon e5 2666v3 and it doesn't have an ark page. ALso the motherboard is msi gaming pro carbon x99.

 

[Ecky]

I'm not calling the cops, I'm just letting you know that your CPU is not final silicon and may have defects. There's a reason Intel wasn't selling them.

 

[krzyimprt]

Just so you know, engineering samples are all black market "stolen" CPUs. They're officially the property of Intel and were never to be sold, and are often early production samples that may have part of the chip not working properly.

Just because someone has an engineering sample of a CPU doesn't mean that it's stolen. You can find ES CPU's all day long on eBay.

 

[somebassplayer]

@Ecky call the cops then buddy. Does it look like I care?

If you paid attention to what they wrote, they weren't accusing you of something. They were pointing
out that engineering samples may have defects.

 

[Ecky]

Just so you know, engineering samples are all black market "stolen" CPUs. They're officially the property of Intel and were never to be sold, and are often early production samples that may have part of the chip not working properly.

Just because someone has an engineering sample of a CPU doesn't mean that it's stolen. You can find ES CPU's all day long on eBay.

It's stolen from Intel. That doesn't mean OP stole it, just that it was, at some point, stolen.

 

[krzyimprt]

Just so you know, engineering samples are all black market "stolen" CPUs. They're officially the property of Intel and were never to be sold, and are often early production samples that may have part of the chip not working properly.

Just because someone has an engineering sample of a CPU doesn't mean that it's stolen. You can find ES CPU's all day long on eBay.

It's stolen from Intel. That doesn't mean OP stole it, just that it was, at some point, stolen.

That's a pretty moot point. I wouldn't buy an engineering sample to begin with as the bugs haven't been worked out. No surprise that he's having an issue with hyperthreading.

 

[ani987]

Just so you know, engineering samples are all black market "stolen" CPUs. They're officially the property of Intel and were never to be sold, and are often early production samples that may have part of the chip not working properly.

Just because someone has an engineering sample of a CPU doesn't mean that it's stolen. You can find ES CPU's all day long on eBay.

It's stolen from Intel. That doesn't mean OP stole it, just that it was, at some point, stolen.

I definitely know for a fact that ES cpus are not stolen but are given, from intel to someone else, which in turn means that intel no longer has the right to tell them what to do with it. Basically what you are saying is that if someone got a xbox one s that was still under production and not sold yet and if he were to sell said beta xbox one s then he stole it or the person who bought it stole. So in other words you aren't making sense.

 

[synphul]

Please limit the personal snark. Ecky is correct, if a cpu is an ES (engineering sample) it is the property of intel and not for sale/resale. Meaning if people are selling it on ebay they're doing so illegally. Plenty of things are sold that shouldn't be. Ecky is also correct that ES chips may have bugs or defects. This from intel:

" - Intel ES Processors are the sole property of Intel.
- Intel ES Processors are Intel Confidential.
- Intel ES Processors are provided by Intel under nondisclosure and/or special loan agreement terms with restrictions on the recipient's handling and use.
- Intel ES Processors are not for sale or re-sale.
- Intel ES Processors may not have passed commercial regulatory requirements.
- ES Processors are not covered under Intel warranty and are generally not supported by Intel"

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/processors/000005719.html

As for people selling them on ebay.
http://www.techspot.com/news/46902-engineers-arrested-for-selling-sample-cpus-on-ebay.html

An ES chip has no guarantees and one of the things disabled or flawed on that particular cpu may involve the hyper threading. It's a guess since there's no hard documentation on an engineering sample which is basically a 'work in progress' piece of hardware.

 

[RobCrezz]

@RobCrezz the reason I said just ES is because it's a xeon e5 2666v3 and it doesn't have an ark page. ALso the motherboard is msi gaming pro carbon x99.

So you are just seeing 10 cores, 10 threads?

Have you looked in the bios to see if you can enable/disable HT?

It could be more that the motherboard isnt supporting it, rather than an issue with the chip.

Have you tried updating to the latest bios?