Whos got a rare CPU?

[Maximilian]

I been looking on ebay for an engineering sample chip for cheap or somthing rare but nah, theres nothing within my price range. I think the rarest on i have owned is either the half bust itanium 800 or the pentium pro 1MB, neither of which are difficult to come by, unless your looking for a rock bottom price.

So has anyone else got a rare CPU? or an engineering sample?

 

[imported_segagenesis]

I used to have a NEC V20/V30 board along with alot of other hard to find pre-1990 PC eqipment before I moved years ago. Although they are completely and utterly worthless today apparently for thier time they were great 3rd party cpu's and ran noticeably faster than your standard 8088. Not surprisingly Intel tried to sue them over something unrelated (the V60 CPU which was a copy of the 386?) and since then NEC has not made anything cloned.

Currently? We have a dual pentium pro 200mhz (no idea on cache) where I work in our collection of obsolete hardware that sits in a room nobody uses. It does work still and currently is operational as I recently as of this past week revived it, but its is godawful SLOW even for a dual proc compared to current systems... we truly are spoiled with what we have access to today. It might make it more rare that the machine is a HP server from 1997 and its the only computer I've ever seen that has both EISA and PCI, the raid card has an Intel 960 processor which is very uncommon these days unless you look at old emedded devices.

 

[Zap]

I used to have a 186 CPU. It was ganked out of a Trash 80, IIRC.

 

[JC]

I have an IBM 'Blue Lightning' 486DX2-80...it was the shizzle when Intel's fastest was 66MHz.

 

[Bateluer]

Any old CPU will become 'rare' eventually.

 

[CP5670]

I had an A64 3200 winchester ES in my main system for most of the last year. It was a crap overclocker and couldn't go beyond 2150mhz or something like that. I got it from one of my dad's colleagues whose husband was an AMD researcher and it was free, so I was hardly complaining.

As for old ones, I guess I have the 32mhz Motorola 68030 in my ancient Mac that I still keep operational.

 

[soydios]

I have an Intel Socket-5 Pentium-1 90MHz system from Gateway 2000 in the garage, built in 1994. Massive Western Digital one-gigabyte Caviar hard drive, too. I've got a Socket-7 Pentium-1 133MHz CPU as a keychain. The die is like 400 square millimeters, and it runs at 2.8 volts.

 

[stevty2889]

I have a couple of 3.2ghz prescott ES's. A mobile 1.6 Northwood, that has an Sspec not listed on Intel's website. I had a 600mhz Katami core P3 a while ago, that was worth a pretty penny at the time I sold it to buy a P4.

 

[Stumps]

I have both AMD K6-III+ 550 and K6-2+ 550 mobile CPU's in a pair of AT desktops...they run pretty good
I also have a Am386DX40 system still up and running.

I alos have a super rare AMD AXP 2800+ t-Bred 133FSB CPU (133x17, 1.65v 2250mhz)...the only problem with it is I don't have a system to put it in to...although one of my systems runs a 2100+ T-bred that is overclocked to match the specs but requirers 1.82v to do the same, as soon as I get my hands on a good Gigabyte SKT A mobo I might put the 2800+ to good use

 

[keeleysam]

I have two 1.4GHz Tualatin Pentium III ES chips, a couple K6-2 ES chips, two Opteron 165 CCB1Es with substrate codes 0000 and 0001, and a few other things I cannot recall.

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
I have two 1.4GHz Tualatin Pentium III ES chips, a couple K6-2 ES chips, two Opteron 165 CCB1Es with substrate codes 0000 and 0001, and a few other things I cannot recall.

I've never heard of these processors with the ES prefix what model numbers do they have and what speed?

 

[ViRGE]

ES would be engineering sample.

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
ES would be engineering sample.

ahhh now I see

 

[Zorba]

I have an old Cyrix PR150+ (133MHz)

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: Zorba
I have an old Cyrix PR150+ (133MHz)

i had that one too

 

[Sable]

Not that rare probably but I;ve got an 83mhz pentium overdrive chip. :thumbsup:

 

[NoStateofMind]

Can someone tell me EXACTLY what chip this is and its speed? On the top it states:

Intel Pentium
A80502-90-SX968
ICOMP INDEX = 735
L5061194-7391
INTEL 92'93'


On the underside on a sticker:

Z33322

On the underside on die:

24484590NC
MALAY 506 ES
INTEL 92 93
A80502-90
SX968

Any help?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
Can someone tell me EXACTLY what chip this is and its speed? On the top it states:

Intel Pentium
A80502-90-SX968
ICOMP INDEX = 735
L5061194-7391
INTEL 92'93'


On the underside on a sticker:

Z33322

On the underside on die:

24484590NC
MALAY 506 ES
INTEL 92 93
A80502-90
SX968

Any help?

here you go

SX968

 

[NoStateofMind]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER

Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
Can someone tell me EXACTLY what chip this is and its speed? On the top it states:

Intel Pentium
A80502-90-SX968
ICOMP INDEX = 735
L5061194-7391
INTEL 92'93'


On the underside on a sticker:

Z33322

On the underside on die:

24484590NC
MALAY 506 ES
INTEL 92 93
A80502-90
SX968

Any help?

here you go

SX968

Would it fit in the 'rare' catagory...or the "wow this is old, lets watch it burn!!" catagory?

EDIT: and thanks by the way DAPUNISHER!

EDIT #2 check out this site Rare CPU's

 

[Vegitto]

What's this one, then?

PB 731069-001
NM4 94V-0
C47
9930
Intel (r)


The memory chip on the thing says:

S82459AD
8929PU27
SL3F5
Intel (m) (c) '9<unreadable character>

 

[secretanchitman]

i have an old pentium 60Mhz and a pentium pro 200Mhz. i thought those were rare back in the day.

edit: didnt read the title properly. stupid me.

 

[Henny]

I've got an original Pentium 60 with the "Job 1" markings. I also have an Intel 4004.

 

[burney]

I have 286. Amazingly I tested it a year ago and it was working ( with windows 3.0 i think)..I will sell it as antique after 50 yrs

 

[Kaieye]

I have a socket 754 clawhammer 2800+ engineering sample AND the first socket 754 mb with a amd chipset that comes with it.

 

[Dadofamunky]

This is a good thread