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Would you care if your VPS is hosted on Engineering Sample CPUs?
Same stepping as the retail one. Only half price.
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You're talking about the e5's I'm guessing....... these people are profiting more than the people selling the legit ones. They got these samples next to nothing. It is illegal to sell the samples.
I don't care
Yet, they are being sold for many years.
Nope.
http://news.techeye.net/chips/intel-oem-engineers-face-five-years-in-gaol
You can't even tell, as a user, if the CPU is second hand/engineering sample/fake CPU whatsoever, so I would say I won't bother unless the performance is bad?
Some engineering samples have different cpuinfo
Can't VPS providers just fake cpuinfo though? (you can do anything with linux )
I wouldn't care if it is an engineering sample as long as it can pass all correctness and burnin tests.
@rds100 Same here, as long as it's just as fast and stable as the normal chip I'm fine.
It leaves the provider open to blackmail if someone in the DC figures out they are using Intel ES chips as legally they are the property of Intel.
It depends on how high risk they are.
Where do you get these things?
Black market
edit: brain fart
Yo homey PM me.
Lol, but seriously, do people just sell these on websites and stuff?
http://www.techspot.com/news/46902-engineers-arrested-for-selling-sample-cpus-on-ebay.html
http://communities.intel.com/message/161267
If OP does do this I would stay away since he blatantly knows it is illegal to buy them.
I don't care on the machine. But I care which provider is giving me service.
Depends on the country.
Yes because if Intel finds out, that server's going down and being dismantled.
The price was tempting, but yeah, it's better to stay away from them.
Found out some people sell it on HardForums
Dat price.