INTEL CONFIDENTIAL: Help me identify this chip!

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Hey,
I interviewed at Intel last week and they gave me a processor. I thought the guy said it was a 3.2 ghz prescott, but now I'm not so sure. I've been straight AMD for a while so I don't know too much about the intel CPUs as of late.

I want to figure out what this thing is before I buy a motherboard for it (I originally thought it was LGA775, then I realized those don't have pins, shows how much I know). All i know is that its socket 478 (I counted the pins =/)

Anyways, here are the facts:
It came in a little black box (picture https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/kohoutek/www/000_0282.jpg) with this writing on it:
Part #: 7429 Product/Stepping: Plu 533 bx ???
Date: 07/25/02

The heatspreader says (pic https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/kohoutek/www/000_0280.jpg):

INTEL CONFIDENTIAL
0291ES MALAY
IMC'01 80532PG088512
L331A856

M331B992
0487

And the back of the chip looks like this (https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/kohoutek/www/000_0281.jpg)

From pics and stuff I've seen It seems like it may be a socket 478 northwood, but I still have no idea what speed.

edit: Sorry for the crappy pics. Was the best I could do. If you need clarification on anything I can take a closer look!.
-jack
 
It's an ES (Engineering Sample) with unlocked multipliers. No way to tell what it was "meant" to be without installing it and taking a look with a program like CPU-Z.

-Kris
 
if it's really dated 2002 on the IHS, it might be a really old CPU, and quite possibly a 533fsb one.
 
No offense, but that's some worthless photography. Perhaps your camera has a macro mode for closeups that you could use? You got the point across anyway, I'm just thinking your camera could do better.
 
That pic actually hurt my eyes. Dude, turn on the lights when you snap a photo! :D
 
I'd have to agree with these folks, turn on the lights and have the camera sit on something instead of holding it
 
Thanks for the reply, tehquick. I had to use my girlfriends camera and didn't have time to see if the pics turned out and i figured they were better than nothing. Jeez.
 
I thought maybe some of those numbers had some significance, that was my main reason for posting.
 
its definitely a 533 northwood - 80532. Other than that, the quickest way to find out would be to do what cableguy suggested: slap it in a motherboard and have it detect the frequency, or run CPU-Z
 
FanZ said:
its definitely a 533 northwood - 80532. Other than that, the quickest way to find out would be to do what cableguy suggested: slap it in a motherboard and have it detect the frequency, or run CPU-Z
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But if it's really an ES, u can simply drop the multiplier and raise FSB all the way to 800 (200mhz).
 
i interviewd with intel about a month ago.. they didn't give me the co-op.. grrr.. they wanted people with more digital design experience... :(
 
Sounds like you got yourself an unlocked Engineer Sample, consider yourself lucky. People used to kill to get ES PIII's.
 
TehQuick said:
But if it's really an ES, u can simply drop the multiplier and raise FSB all the way to 800 (200mhz).
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you can if you want, if the chip's capable without being cooked. Either way, all ES chips have a intended speed and model which can be found through CPU id programs, such as cpuz, intel processor identifier, etc.
 
If you drop the multiplier and raise the FSB you could get yourself 800MHz FSB speeds. The biggest dissapointment would be if it didn't have HT. Which only the 3.06GHz P4 did with a 533MHz FSB.

So it might not really be worth jacking with too much.
 
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