ES CPU -- Identification Part #2 -- Is IT!?

[T_Minus]

I've used my fair share of ES CPUs and I've seen the common core count not match OEM, sensor count not match OEM, missing some pieces, etc...

However, I just got some chips in from another country that say INTEL right on the CHIP, and also the part #, ie: E5-2620. The chip boots up, works fine, and reads what it says is engraved/written on the chip.

HOWEVER. I noticed on one there is a sensor mismatch, which I've ONLY seen on ES chips.

Has anyone seen a heat sensor mismatch on a non-ES chip? Is Intel re-branding ES chips for 3rd-world countries?

 

[Patriot]

What do you mean by, heat sensor mismatch?

 

[T_Minus]

Some ES may be 10 CORE RETAIL, but 8 core or 6 core ES.

Sometimes the heat/other sensors for the other cores are still active.

I've only seen this on ES chips though, and now the retail chip is showing it.

 

[Patriot]

/me shrugs, if you think Intel chips don't have errata ... you have not read their documentation.

Remember that they shipped C1 as both ES and retail for SB-E with broken VT-D and HW-E with TSX borked.

 

[T_Minus]

/me shrugs, if you think Intel chips don't have errata ... you have not read their documentation.

Remember that they shipped C1 as both ES and retail for SB-E with broken VT-D and HW-E with TSX borked.

I don't have experience with 100s or 1000s of CPUs, dozens, but not hundreds so I'm not intimately aware of their mistakes, and goofs.

I just found it weird and my first time finding a CPU that had more sensors working than cores working on a non-ES CPU.