(lscpu) without isolating the "Authentic"
This is what I'm seeing in lscpu :
Architecture: amd64
Byte Order: Little Endian
Total CPU(s): 4
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 4
Socket(s): 1
Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 156
Model name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Silver N6005 @ 2.00GHz
Stepping: 0
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 1536K
L3 cache: 4M
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 cflsh ds acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pbe sse3 pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline aes xsave osxsave rdrnd fsgsbase tsc_adjust fp_dp smep erms fpcsds pqe rdseed smap clflushopt clwb intel_pt umip syscall nx rdtscp lm lahf_lm
And that is on a QS chip.
What is Topton telling you so far? At this point I've escalated it to AliExpress multiple times, and Topton seems to want to work with me, however it's frustratingly long between replies. I'm also not convinced they even really read the replies I wrote (I provided the information and queries as condensed and succinctly as possible), because often they will respond with something totally random similar to throwing a bunch of options out, none of which are satisfactory, or requires me to "wait" another few weeks or month.
Last night I got :
Sorry dear,you should know that the QS version of the CPU is very cost-effective and its price is also very cheap. The official version of the CPU is obviously much more expensive than the QS version, so the factory uses the QS version, and they produce this machine according to the needs of the market.
to which I replied that wasn't an acceptable answer
and then this morning I got :
Sorry dear for this,so what can I do for you now?
I asked them to send me what I paid for and was told to request a refund and return the unit. However I'm outside the 15 days and I can't request a refund. When I pointed this out they have gone radio silent
I'm not sure I can be arsed returning it or being without it as I've been using it as an OpnSense box since I got it and switching back to my old solution will be a bit painfull, I wonder if they will do a partial refund.
I worked out a "fix" to the poor cooling besided repasting which certainly helped, I popped one of the wifi antenna caps off and ran the cable of a 120mm fan through the hole to the cpu fan header. I've put 2 3mm nuts in one of the channels along the top and used some m3 machine screws to hold the fan on. The case is now cold to the touch at idle rather than fairly warm ... I'm struggling to believe the thermal sensor readings from OpnSense as they literally jump 10 degrees or more every refresh which doesn't really seem plausible to me ... infact just saw it showing 79C while the case is literally below room temperature and 5 seconds later down at 39C