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FDIV
Joined: 12 Mar 2006
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 Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:39 am Post subject: A few interesting finds including an odd pentium q-spec |
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The weather finally got warm enough to go back to the scrap yard for the first time in a few months. It was well worth it. I found an really odd q-spec Pentium and some interesting Motorola 604's in a package I have never seen before.
The Pentium appears to have originally been marked SL27S but that has been obscured and it has been remarked Q323 (I have entered this in the s-spec database.) Also the 33 in 233 has been literally x'd out. My thought is that perhaps the processor failed quality control at the Intel plant and they remarked it with the slower speed at which it would function and sent it out as a qualification sample. On the top of the chip was originally written 200 in felt tip pen to indicate the new speed (I removed this when I cleaned the chip.) There is also an unusual etched serial number of some type beside the normal text. I am not sure if this is factory though because some of the other chips in the lot with this one had that text as well.
The Motorolas were from a large server of some type. The were mounted in what I can only describe as drawers. I did not see the server in one piece. I have never seen 604's with heat spreaders like these. They were two to a board in a drawer that could have held at least 4 boards. I believe the server had several of these drawers originally although only one of the ones I saw had any processors in it.
I would love to hear your takes on these chips. Also I found 3 of the Pentium Q323's and 4 of the Motorolas. I will keep one of each the others will be posted in my tradelist |
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CPUShack
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hugo929
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ItsMeOnly
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Location: Warszawa, Poland
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:51 am Post subject: |
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| PPC- not a surprise, the DeepBlue, which allegedly beat Kasparov, consisted of hundreds of 604s- BlueGene is too. Maybe you got a nice CPU node from Gene/L machine. |
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FDIV
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I remember the deep blue. I had totally forgotten what it ran off though. Thanks for the history lesson. |
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