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		speleo_engr on Oct 2, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The IBM Pentium 4 64-Bit CPU I've had Intel engineering samples from work (we got them under NDA and such). They were tossing some Sandy Bridge engineering samples at some point and let us take them home. The hardware was buggy and didn't get microcode updates IIRC. The case and mobo was leaf blower loud and very unwieldy. I could run Linux for a few hours before it would segfault. I ended up trashing it. So I don't think an Intel engineering sample is better, I think it is worse.

klingonopera on Oct 2, 2019 [–]

Did those have "Intel Confidential" on them?

The CPU I bought was working fine though, the seller guaranteed it and he had the reputation on eBay to back it.

My (possibly) naive logic then, was that an early sample was likely to be made from the best silicon, which often correlates with good OC potential...

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