anyone still collect engineering samples?

[kc8adu]

i found a bunch of these and remember they were popular with collectors.
they were in daily use till now so are still useful.
pair of tualatin-s 1266 and a pair of p3 933 slot 1.

[Topcat]

Re: anyone still collect engineering samples?

I have a couple CUMINE s370 engineering samples left...

[370forlife]

Re: anyone still collect engineering samples?

slot 1 933's were produced, weren't they? I have 2 1ghz slot 1's.

[zandrax]

Re: anyone still collect engineering samples?

@ KC8: I have a dual 370 board which officially accepts only Tualatins but I used two Coppermine 1000EB I owned: the bios complains about the cpus (it lacks Cmine CPU IDs), but the board electrically recognizes and supports them; only annoyance is I have to press F1 at every boot to acknowledge the presence of unsupported cpus and this prevents unattended reboots.
I never had nor tried ES chips: are your two Tualatin-S or normal not-SMP ones? Do you know in which board they were employed?

Zandrax

[kc8adu]

Re: anyone still collect engineering samples?

the ones i have are p3-s with 512 cache
if you can get a bios with updated microcode for cumines it may be fine.
they ran for several years in a tyan 230t.

[zandrax]

Re: anyone still collect engineering samples?

the ones i have are p3-s with 512 cache

'll right: server Tualatins.

if you can get a bios with updated microcode for cumines it may be fine.

The board is an Asus TR-DLS customized for an HP Netserver TC3100: the Asus bios recognizes Cumines, the Hp one don't but I fear the differences between the original and customized boards may turn into troubles if I flash the Asus bios on mine. I.e. the Asus has a switch for setting the FSB while the HP lacks it and is all done by bios; the same for multiplier switch, clear cmos jumper (put into unused multiplier switch on the HP), SCSI controller (same manifacturer, same family, same socket but different chip) and other minor discrepances (e.g. proprietary connectors on the HP mobo).
I simply don't want to risk to lose the board: it runs steadly, the only three annoyances are the "wrong cpu" nag screen at boot, the HP proprietary board panel (I should solder a standard panel to have HDD led and power switch working) and an excessive latency when the bios change fans' rotations: it blocks the PCI bus for few ms and crashes every audio driver I tried on both Windows and Linux (only audio drivers, USB and IDE controllers are fine: don't ask me why).

they ran for several years in a tyan 230t.

Good mobo.

Zandrax

[stevo1210]

Re: anyone still collect engineering samples?

I have one engineering sample CPU in my stash. The engineering sample I have is a slot 1 - Pentium III 800MHz/133 coppermine CPU.

[pentium]

Re: anyone still collect engineering samples?

I don't have any samples but I do know someone with a 68040 sample.

[Scenic]

Re: anyone still collect engineering samples?

PIII-S 1133MHz (Tualatin 512k) ES in my Mom's PC
Pentium 4 (?) TS (LGA775)... Thermal Sample. gets hot as hell (so i think its a prescott ) but doesnt POST.. no markings on top... just blank...

Via C3 Ezra 866MHz ES.. works fine

(left 866MHz Ezra ES, right 700MHz Samuel II)