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Comment on Ultra-rare unreleased Pentium 4 with 4.0 GHz clock speed discovered — CPU-Z confirms it is an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980

stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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?

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Peffse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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.

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- stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  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.
  
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