Intel confidential Cpus

[gel]

I just got my hands on some 2.4ghz and 3.06's but I need to know how to work out the FSB of the 2.4's and if the 3.06's are hyperthread or not.
If I remember rightly they will all have unlocked multipliers so need to be set up in the bios.

The codes seem to read on the 2.4's:
QJR9ES and QLY8ES in assuming one is 400Mhz and the other is 533Mhz

The 3.06's are QRB0ES

Thanks!
Gel

 

[Mephistopheles]

I think all 3.06Ghz are HT-enabled, and all 2.4Ghz with 400Mhz or 533Mhz are HT-disabled... I'm not sure about those codes, though.

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[gel]

Thanks, I'm right in thinking that the multipliers are unlocked though?

 

[ChipDeath]

No. All Multipliers have been locked on Intel CPUs since before PIIIs I think.

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[HardWareBoss]

All P4 3.06 are HT enabled. They where the first to offer HT.

 

[eden]

If you mean CONFIDENTIAL as in Engineering Samples from INTEL themselves, these are indeed multiplier-unlocked CPUs.

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[gel]

The multipliers are locked. I cannot change them in the bios. What's so special about them anyway? Are they just standard P4's with 'Confidential' stamped on them?

 

[eden]

It's not normal, I recall Intel's CPUs supplied personally to some people, are multiplier-unlocked.

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[traviss187]

with intel mb's you can't change the multiplier in the bios, so what would happen if you put an unlocked cpu in one....? any ideas?

 

[knewt]

I do in fact have an unlocked 2.4A chip in an Intel mb. I was able to change the multiplier. On the board is a jumper that will boot the board into an advanced bios mode which does have multiplier adjustments enabled.

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[traviss187]

ahh, thanks, that should make my bro happy if he gets one, he was worried about what might happen

 

[eden]

Something tells me you work for them or have relations with Intel, because no Intel board, publically, has tricks to unlock, AFAIK. It would've easily made the tech news.

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[slvr_phoenix]

It's not normal, I recall Intel's CPU supplied personally to some people, are multiplier-unlocker.

I thought that some of the Intel Confidentials were set up so that multipliers that'd take it above its rated speed were locked, but multipliers that'd take it below its rated speed were unlocked. (So basically you could underclock it all that you wanted, but not overclock it.)

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[eden]

A rather silly thing really, it's only to a few select persons!

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[slvr_phoenix]

A rather silly thing really, it's only to a few select persons!

I suppose so, but then I'm not Intel and I'm not making billions of dollars a year, so what do <i>I</i> know about what is silly and what isn't? **ROFL**

Seriously though, I don't think that they'd do it if they didn't have a reason.

**shrug**

I don't know.

Then again, they're Intel. They do what they want, reason or not. Heh heh.

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[traviss187]

intel doesn't just hand them out to random people, the only way I know that they can be gotten is if you work or have ties with someone that works in a department that has some laying around and no longer needs... basically old test models or ones that were never used.
and no I don't work for intel but I wish I did, they pay good $$$$