Legit Core 2 Duo?

I finally got my W3J delivered!!! Woohoo...

wa wa....it came with this annoying little piece of bloatware, that actually turned out to be useful. Can anyone tell me if this is a bad thing?

the program is the intel processor id utility. And i will try and post the screen shot i took of its findings. If it doesnt come up ill try again.

 

never mind...ill just type what it says:

core 1: speed - 220MHz, system bus 147MHz
Core 2: speed - 220MHz, system bus 147MHz

The tested Intel(R) processor appears to be an engineering sample, not a production processor. The utility is designed to support production Intel processors only. Sample processors are not warranted by Intel, and are not intended for resale.

If this information differs from what was expected, please contact the PC system manufacturer or microprocessor place of purchase.

I don't think that this is what i want to hear is it???

Also, is the speed only supposed to be 220MHz?

Thanks all

 

C'mon people, need some opinions.

I'm getting very nervous about this thing too as I just ran the super pi test...

Only to 512K and it took 2 minutes!!!!

Can someone tell me a sure fire way to check that all of my components are what they are supposed to be? I can go to the system hardware and check it from there, but I know someone who bought a computer which also had all the "correct" specs there yet it turned out to only be a pentium 2, not a pentium 3.

Thanks

 

You have a problem there, tried setting the computers power profile to max performance, anyways I dont recall that core duos clock down below 998mhz or so anyways...

 

Hey thanks US patriot...that fixed it...

LOL...I feel pretty sheepish...

I just ran the super pi program to 2million and got 1:04

Much better...I was hoping to break sub 1 minute, but i think i might need the 2.16GHz for that...

Thanks all

 

Asus wouldn't ship engineering sample C2Ds, I don't think... Where did you get a Merom W3J anyway? I thought they were still in shipment.

 

He's in Australia...

 

Several resellers have been offering merom customized upgrades starting back in August. There was a thread back in early Sept about GenTech and the Engineering Sample chips that they may/may not have been representing as retail to their customers.

As long as the chip doesn't break someday or otherwise have issues with the old W3 bios the unit currently has or the final merom BIOS that Asus puts out (since that will be tuned to the final, production merom cpus) if he flashes it, Pitch is fine. But, as clearly stated Intel doesn't warrant the ES chips and they're not supposed to be used for resale or represented as production models, so I guess I'd just keep my fingers crossed. Sounds like there was, in fact, a disclaimer about the ES cpus that I wondered about back then...

 

Well, let's put it this way... engineering samples are #1, not aloud to be resold, but more importantly #2, Intel likes to spread them around, but if your name isn't dell or hp, etc, if you get a single one, it's like winning the powerball.

... There was also a lot of rumors that the core duo cpu itself was capable of 64bit, it was just locked down until intel could finish testing them.... I don't know a lot about it because I simply didn't pay much attention, but if that was the case, either someone figured out how to crack them (doubt it without me hearing about it), or intel simply opened them up somehow. If that was the case, the cpu could still say core duo on it...... as the final production chips would say core 2.

Samples are used for review purposes and we've had a core duo and a dothan before that... and they really don't show the same power as the finish product....

 

Several IT resellers in Australia are currently offering Core 2 Duo cpus for the W3J. Most of which are over 3.5k...OUCH!!!

 

and how can we(customers) distinguish between es and retail product ?