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Engineer version CPU

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coolpurplefan

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I bought an Intel E6850 on eBay and just found out later it was an engineer version. It was for an old Asus P5Q motherboard that stayed in a box for years so I decided to build it up. Does anyone think I should take a chance and use it or send it back and get a new one? I wanted to keep it long term.
 
Send it back and ask for a refund. It is illegal to sell Engineering Samples, and you have unwittingly become a recipient of stolen property.
 
NTMBK said:
Send it back and ask for a refund. It is illegal to sell Engineering Samples, and you have unwittingly become a recipient of stolen property.
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This, though ebay is full of them. If the listing didn't make it clear take it up with the seller.
 
Yes it appears you were the unfortunate recipient of non-transferable merchandise. The "right" thing to do is send it back for a refund from whomever you bought it from but who knows if you'll have any luck with that. Someone selling an ES on ebay is not a very reputable person to begin with.

As far as using it goes, it may work fine or not. There is no real way of knowing how it will perform. ES chips are many times early steppings and can be unstable as a result.
 
GreenChile said:
Yes it appears you were the unfortunate recipient of non-transferable merchandise. The "right" thing to do is send it back for a refund from whomever you bought it from but who knows if you'll have any luck with that. Someone selling an ES on ebay is not a very reputable person to begin with.

As far as using it goes, it may work fine or not. There is no real way of knowing how it will perform. ES chips are many times early steppings and can be unstable as a result.
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This....However, I've been the recipient of Engineering samples before too. They are all unlocked processors so if you get a good one, you can get some serious OC out of it.
 
Threaten to write a negative review. I ordered a cellphone battery once and it didnt work all that well. I threatened to write a negative review and they sent me 3 more batteries.
 
It's an old and cheap CPU, if it overclocks fine I wouldn't bother with sending it back. Too much of a hassle for such a paltry amount of money. The seller is obviously disingenuous, you could have problems with him returning the money, of course you can get e-buy to have your money back, but it's even more of a hassle. Negative comment should be in order though.
 
apart from legal considerations it should work fine, most samples sold on ebay are fully working like the final product.
 
An e6850 is barely worth the postage to ship it, there is a guy selling oem e7400's for $12 shipped on the forums here.

True that all E.S. cpu's are Intel property, but the technology is so many generations old that it is worthless to Intel.

Not all E.S. cpu's are unlocked, having tested several generations myself.

Run cpu-z and look at the stepping and revision and post it here.

The stepping and revision will tell you how close to retail and a reliable processor you have.
 
Not worth sending it back, just use it.


Honestly how I would feel. Sucks but you probably paid under $15 for it I'm guessing?


If it was valued more it'd be different. Leave Negative feedback too if it wasn't clearly stated it was a ES version.


Me- Awaits moral slamming.
 
Leave negative feedback. Contact Intel. Recycle the chip (not because it won't work, but because it's stolen technically).
 
Looks like it's been mounted. In any case, here are the markings:
Intel '05 E6850
Intel Croe 2 Duo
SLA9U Costa Rica
3.00 GHz 4M 1333 06
381 0A147 (and a circle which has what I think is E4 written inside)
 
How do you know it's ES? Usually ES CPUs have a distinct mark (some kind of code) that is different from the production ones. I may be wrong, but the SLA9U indicates it's a production one.
 
jcniest5 said:
How do you know it's ES? Usually ES CPUs have a distinct mark (some kind of code) that is different from the production ones. I may be wrong, but the SLA9U indicates it's a production one.
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This.

Engineering samples start with a 'Q' marking instead of 'S'.
 
Googling around indicates the E6850 ES was stepping 9, revision E0. If you're really unsure (although it's a production model by all indications) you can pop it in and run CPUz. Should also tell you it's an engineering sample by the "(ES)" qualifier in the Specification field.

Googling also indicates the chip code was QSCU... should look something like this

Intel_Pentium_4_HH80557PJ0804MG_QSCU_ES_30_th.jpg


No clue how you arrived at the conclusion that it's an ES.
 
coolpurplefan said:
Looks like it's been mounted. In any case, here are the markings:
Intel '05 E6850
Intel Croe 2 Duo
SLA9U Costa Rica
3.00 GHz 4M 1333 06
381 0A147 (and a circle which has what I think is E4 written inside)
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Not sure how you came to the conclusion that your CPU was an ES...?

The SLA9U is a production S-Spec. ES chips start with "Q" and are generally four digits, not five.

Also, ES chips have "Intel Confidential" printed on them.

So unless your chip has been re-marked (ground down and re-etched with a laser), then you have nothing to worry about.
 
The seller was the one who said engineer version. The only thing I'm concerned about is how often, how long it was used.
I kind of feel weird about the situation. Still unsure what I'm going to do.
 
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