Counterfeit x5460?

[Samir]

As old as these are, I couldn't really think this could be the case but here's the story...

I have another system that's acting funny in such a way that you'd think it's having memory, motherboard, or cpu issues. Memory tests fine using memtest, no real test for the motherboard other than a swap, so I run intel's cpu test. I tried it on my HP DL380 G5 first just to see how it works, etc and it tells me the cpus in that system have failed! (Ironically, the system I needed to test had its i5-2500 pass.)

These are the results:

--- IPDT64 - Revision: 4.1.2.34
--- IPDT64 - Start Time: 7/11/2019 1:04:23 AM

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-- Testing
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CPU 1 - Genuine Intel - Pass.
CPU 2 - Genuine Intel - Pass.
CPU 1 - BrandString - Pass.
CPU 2 - BrandString - Pass.
CPU 1 - Cache - Pass.
CPU 2 - Cache - Pass.
CPU 1 - MMXSSE - Pass.
CPU 2 - MMXSSE - Pass.
CPU 1 - IMC - Pass.
CPU 2 - IMC - Pass.
CPU 1 - Math - Pass.
CPU 2 - Math - Pass.
CPU 1 - FMA3 - Pass.
CPU 2 - FMA3 - Pass.
CPU 1 - Math - Pass.
CPU 2 - Math - Pass.
CPU 1 - FMA3 - Pass.
CPU 2 - FMA3 - Pass.
CPU 1 - CPULoad - Pass.
CPU 2 - CPULoad - Pass.
CPU 1 - CPUFreq - Pass.
CPU 2 - CPUFreq - Pass.
CPU 1 - PCH - Pass.
CPU 2 - PCH - Pass.
CPU 1 - SPBC - Fail.
CPU 2 - SPBC - Fail.

IPDT64 Failed
--- IPDT64 - Revision: 4.1.2.34
--- IPDT64 - End Time: 7/11/2019 1:07:08 AM

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FAIL

And the SPBC module seems to be testing if the processor is legit or not:

--- IntelR spbc Module Test --
...
Version 1.0.11.64b.W
...

Test Information
The purpose of spbc.exe is to determine if the processor under test is either a
sample or production processor

..Options are as follows -
 -h       This message..
       Example
       spbc.exe -h

 -c       If present this option will output to display the results
       information using the following color scheme
       - green - PASS scenario  production unit detected..
       - red - FAIL scenario  sample unit detected..
       - yellow - warning message indicating SPBC could not determine
         if unit is either a sample or production processor..
       Example
       spbc.exe -c

 -info       Information switch that publishes parallel information
       using the following scheme
       parallelnosocketyescoreyes

 -resultName  The resultName switch provides a way to name the results file
       as desired. Otherwise SPBC will generate spbc_Results.txt
       file containing the results information of the test run..
       Example
       spbc.exe -resultName spbc_Results_0001.txt

Dependencies
       spbc_LocalConfig.xml
       WinRing0x64.dll
       WinRing0x64.sys

 Copyright C 2015 Intel Corporation

I purchased these as a set last year on ebay from this user, which seems quite legit (can't pull up the original listing anymore):
tupaceve on eBay

They seem to work well aside from not being as 'smooth' in multi-tasking as the dual 5160s they replaced. (I use the DL380 as a desktop remotely via rdp).

Thoughts?

 

[Patrick]

Much harder to do with CPUs like this. My guess is that either they are OK or you get to upgrade.

 

[Samir]

Much harder to do with CPUs like this. My guess is that either they are OK or you get to upgrade.

Why is it harder? Seems like ebay is flooded with 771-775 xeon conversions that are obviously counterfeit intel processors since intel never made 5xxx 775 xeons, etc. I am a bit dumbfounded why someone would, but if there's money to be made...

These were supposed to be my upgrade.