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Originally Posted by cottonvibes
but even if you're a seller, to get a chip this early?
are the chips even finalized?
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Uhm... ever heard of B1-stepping Q9450? Or any Bx stepping 45nm processor to begin with? Hehe... yeah.
The difference between an ES and a retail processor might be stepping... or might be something else... so you can't really say much about the performance of an ES compared to that of a retail one. However, there are cases when the stepping on an ES is superior to that of a retail processor... and...
Engineering Samples are meant to be... experimental CPUs. People receive them to see how they perform, and... they report benchmarks and stuffs to Intel. Most of these steps are just to find the best stepping, or manufacturing steps for the retail processor.
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