IDing a CPU?

[budec]

I have 6 Intel Pent 4 processes. The only markings on them is "Intel XEON" and what appears to be serial numbers.

Ideally, I would like to take four of them and stuff them in a quad board and have a nice little server, but need to find out more info.

Is there differant socket types for Pent 4s Xeons? How do I tell which socket to get? Also how can I tell which speed they're certified for (I don't want to overlock them) and their steppings?

Here is the markings for one as an example:
INTEL XEON
I [M][C]'01
4342A408

Anything in backets [] is a circle

Another one the same, but down at the bottom as differant number:

430IA892

On the bottom of the chips (by the pins) it has stuff like this:

2800DP/1M/800
SL7DV COSTA RICA
3423A607-0258

Would I be correct to assume this is a 2.8 Ghz with 1MB Cache and 800 Mhz front side bus?

Does it autoconfigure the correct voltage in the bios?

What socket?

 

[tpfaff]

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php that should help you

 

[budec]

Ok, think 4 of them are 2.8 Ghz and the others are 3.06 Ghz (3066).

I'm not much of an Intel guy, but a Quad 2.8 ghz with couple gigs of ram would be pretty sweet huh? With hyperthreading that should show up as 8 procs?


How does one of these CPUs compare to an AMD MP 2400+?
Single Intel Pent 4 Xeon 1MB cache @ 2.8 Ghz verus an AMD MP 2400+

Just trying to get a rough estimate on how fast these chips are. What would be about the same performance in the AMD world?

What's a good heatsink for these things?

Would leaving this on 24/7 kill my power bill? I leave a dual AMD MP 2400+ up 24/7 and it doesn't hurt to bad. Is it going to drain more or less power then that?


Anyone make boards in Quad for these? I checked out Tyan.com (they ussually have stable stuff and can ussually find quad stuff there) but they didn't have any listed under Xeon boards. What would be a good solid quad board for this?

 

[budec]

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php that should help you

Thanks! that only works if I have it installed on the system with the CPU... right now I don't have a motherboard to plug these into and even if I did I would be wary of just cramming them into a socket and running them at some random voltage/stepping/speed.

I bookmarked it though, I'll use it when I already got it running.

 

[budec]

holy crap: http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=quad+xeon&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&lmode=online&sa=N&start=0

Most of those boards are like $1000+ a peice

the only cheap ones I see are like used Gateway or Dell refurbs... I really don't want to go with those (I've been bite in the past, some of them use funky parts that only dell/gateway supplies and hard to find (like custom cables, voltage regs, memory cards, etc))

Looking for something "standard" and cheap.

EDIT: think it would be better to go Dual 3.06 instead of Quad 2.8?