My random assortment of pulled untested CPUs arrived early. I was a little worried they'd be shipped scrap style as a "bag o' cpus" but they were all individually wrapped, though rattling in the box so may not have survived intercontinental air package, but did okay on the train from Quebec. A few of the pinned ones are a little tweaked, but nothing worrying, i.e. mashed flat or enough angle you think they'll break.
What I got...
AMD Phenom II x4 955 Black/unlocked, AMD Athlon X2 4200 "Windsor" AM2, AMD A6-3420 mobile, i3-540, xeon E5504, xeon E5310 two of, PDC E5400, PDC E5300, PDC E2160, PentiumD 940, P4 650, P4 630 two of diff step, P4 541, mobile T7300, mobile cel 420 two of, mobile cel 370.
I bought the lot on the strength of the 955 black, so fortunately that was what it was, pics were a tad fuzzy, and wanted a Windsor AM2, because I have mostly brisBANEs and to play with. Also spotted the A6 for very minor upgrade of one laptop and T7300 (said T7250 in prior post, not sure where I got that from) will be a minor upgrade to another... Socket 775s over 3Ghz, I didn't have any, IDK how, wanted one now got "some", pentiumD might solve the argument about whether to put the other I have in the Dell or a D101gcc. The wolfdale Pentium Dual cores might come in as scratch monkey testers for 45nm compatibility, though I am wondering too, if either do "instant insanity" overclocks at max bus speed of some boards, since if one does over 4ghz I might use it for an XP system. Also have an idea that they might minorly upgrade a Dell which started with a PDC but got a faster C2D, but I think one of these would do about 10-15% better, I mean it wouldn't be worth doing buying the CPU individually for most of this. Also I think I might be able to get a Celly 420 mobile working in a machine that has a Dothan, minor clock bump but gives it SSE3 maybe.
The i3 and Xeon E5504 I don't have boards for, but I also don't have others of those sockets to test boards if any turn up, so may come in handy. The celly mobile 370 and E2160 are the ones I don't really know if I have even a theoretical purpose for at the moment.
One thing I noticed about the PDC wolfdales when I looked them up, is that unlike other wolfdale cores they don't seem to have SSE4.1 listed, is this an omission at CPU World or was it really chopped out of them because lower end???
Edit: So the intel datasheet doesn't mention SSE4.1, so that an assumed "horses mouth" confirm that they don't do it right??? Well yeah, but something is a little hinky about the datasheet.... it uses a phrase like "supports all known SIMD streaming extensions..." then lists up to SSSE3 .... but wait, this didn't release until a few months after the top end Wolfdales right? So SSE4.1 was "known" when they came out.... which leads me to believe the whole section might be a careless cut and paste from previous generation of Pentium Dual Core datasheet, hmmmm.
EditII: see modern activity thread for deets, but after discovering the exceptional pin straightening ability of GUM flosspicks, and having a busy week and forgetting, I got the 955 POSTing and booting into windows in an AM2+ board, so that came pretty close to paying for the whole lot. (IDK some lower some higher on fleabay)
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.