cm0002@piefed.social to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 13 days agoUltra-rare unreleased Pentium 4 with 4.0 GHz clock speed discovered — CPU-Z confirms it is an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980www.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkUltra-rare unreleased Pentium 4 with 4.0 GHz clock speed discovered — CPU-Z confirms it is an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980www.tomshardware.comcm0002@piefed.social to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square13linkfedilink
minus-squarePeffse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·13 days agoI think in this case “confirm” just means it is a second source saying it is a 4GHz Pentium 4. The first source of that information is just marker written on the CPU and thus considered less reliable.
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.zipcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·13 days agoI get what you mean, for me a confirmation would be if the CPU meta data was signed with an Intel key that could be verified.
I think in this case “confirm” just means it is a second source saying it is a 4GHz Pentium 4. The first source of that information is just marker written on the CPU and thus considered less reliable.
I get what you mean, for me a confirmation would be if the CPU meta data was signed with an Intel key that could be verified.