Intel Confidential '08

[noladol]

Hello all. After looking on the internet for some info. on this processor, I figured I would ask here after reading some of the threads on here. Very interesting!

Anyway, from what I can read the chip says:

Intel '08
Q4HA ES Costa Rica
AT806140--- AC (The "-" indicates were it was too worn down to see the letters/numbers)
3025A652

It came with a few boards, but all of them looked pretty beat up. This processor, however, looks pretty good. Any information would greatly help. Thanks all!

[noladol]

Oh wow. A 6 core processor.

[beefy]

here is the page http://www.cpu-world.com/sspec/Q4/Q4HA.html

[noladol]

Yes indeed. I found it after I posted this. Thanks anyway.

Is it anything special compared to the retail Xeon E5645 Westmere-EP?

[Chook]

Interesting. The core speed is listed as 2400mhz yet the bus speed is 2933. Is this right? How can the bus speed be more than the processor speed?

[gshv]

It's not really a bus speed, it's a frequency of on-chip QPI controller. QPI is a point-to-point protocol, used to exchange data between the CPU and other CPU, or peripherals (but not memory).

Gennadiy

[gshv]

[noladol]

Do you think It's worth more/less than the production chip?

[gshv]

I have no idea. Sometimes Xeon ES chips are valued much lower than production ones, and sometimes are valued higher.

Gennadiy

[CPUShack]

For normal use they typically are worth less as they are buggy. For collectors they are valued more

[Marcin]

From that was I saw ES chips have lower price than production ones. Colllectors value is higher when chip becomes to "slow speed processor".

[noladol]

Considering a Production Chip cost about $589, how much do you think this chip will catch? $300?

[Neon_WA]

[noladol]

Thanks for that man! If anyone is interested, I'm sure I can beat $500.