cm0002@piefed.social to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 5 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-up1106arrow-down13
arrow-up1103arrow-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 · 5 days agomessage-square13linkfedilink
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·5 days agoI am a bit confused as to how CPU-Z can confirm anything. Doesn’t it just read values that has been written to the chip and present the to the user? How does it confirm anything?
minus-squarePeffse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·4 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.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·4 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 am a bit confused as to how CPU-Z can confirm anything.
Doesn’t it just read values that has been written to the chip and present the to the user? How does it confirm anything?
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.