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craig588
03-21-2005, 09:46 PM
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1247&item=5175664998&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Has anyone seen one of these before? Any information on it?
jjcom
03-21-2005, 09:56 PM
looks like a Slot II (?) processor thing. Looks odd...but it does seem familar...not the 5 CPU's but the name...

jjcom
illmatik
03-21-2005, 09:58 PM
Good luck finding the board that was tested in. I'd say its probably for one of those SMP heavy machines like the IBM x445. Those units mildly equipped ran my old company about $20k
lutjens
03-21-2005, 10:15 PM
That's a real oddball looking thing...it's ancient...that much is for sure.

The CPU's look very much like the controller chips you'd see on an older SCSI RAID controller (the BGA version of the i960). The only difference I can see is the heatspreader, which is square on a controller and octagonal on this device. The interface is definitely Slot 2, however.

Could be some sort of chipset test tool (my guess)...:)
STEvil
03-21-2005, 10:25 PM
P2 Xeons.. I think.

Would be neat to own a couple of those and a dual slot2 board :D
Kamerat
03-21-2005, 11:16 PM
P2 Xeons.. I think.

Would be neat to own a couple of those and a dual slot2 board :D
That's right. The four upper chips are the cache which is running at CPU speed, and the lower one is the actual CPU.

This is a mechanical sample, so it isn't for sure a working CPU, but many mechanical samples still operates as normal CPU's.