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* engineering sample CPU safe to buy?Pedro Valdez
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 by: Pedro Valdez - Sat, 4 Jun 2022 02:18 UTC

I saw some on Aliexpress, about half the price of a retail CPU.
I got one, but Asus mainboard did not recognise it as a supported chip.
Others claim Gigabyte will handle them.

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 by: Paul - Sat, 4 Jun 2022 03:22 UTC

On 6/3/2022 10:18 PM, Pedro Valdez wrote:
> I saw some on Aliexpress, about half the price of a retail CPU.
> I got one, but Asus mainboard did not recognise it as a supported chip.
> Others claim Gigabyte will handle them.
>

Engineering samples are "Not For Resale".

And what are the odds it even runs at stock speed.
It could be underclocked at the factory, because
these are just for motherboard test and not to
win gaming trophies.

Paul

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