I was Digging into one of my CPU boxes to see what from what and get them where they need to go (have in and out side) so this way everything is checked to make sure if its worth something or not. But anyway...I came across something that has now entered into my private collection of computer things....very few items ever go into my collection because I have seen it all and have had some really cool things but...sold it as scrap..this I have to keep....
Its a 775 socket CPU that is
Intel CONFIDENTIAL QUQD ES Costa Rica
What this means is a engineering sample and the cpu has no locks on it so I can program it to do so many things and its...just plain cool. Called up two good friends of mine, one thats high up in Force10 Networks (have another pick up from them soon..always get cool things) but he told me its rare that I have it as it should never left the lab whole as they should be sent back to Intel, locked way in some safe or "killed" and never get out side, shocked about hearing this and..just wanting to check that info out I called another friend and he told me they should not of left the lab but there are some people who will sneak them out and sell them on the market as people want them for both use because they are unlocked or for collecting. I wanted to see how rare, rare is...come to find out there are some cpus up for sale on ebay and some more than others and doing some looking around that mine is worth around 100 bucks...but its still rare and still cool (mind you I found it..did not buy it)
Now me and the 2ed guy who I had called....we are itching on finding out if this thing works...and if it works what we can do to it..so we are going to start trying to find some parts and build a system to mess with it and try not to kill it lmao
Just wanted to share a cool find as this is something I have not see before.
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