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    Did I get a thinkpad with an Enginnering Sample chip?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by MrSatan, Jul 26, 2012.

  1. MrSatan

    MrSatan Notebook Guru

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    I just got a t430 with an i5-3320m. Why does it say this?? Did I get ripped off or lucky? What hidden powers does the es chip have?
     
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    ES procs shouldn't ever end up on the production line so it's most likely just a reporting error by coretemp.   try CPU-Z or AIDA instead and see what they say.

    306A9 is a retail CPUID so there would be zero differences between this chip and retail even if it were ES.   nothing magical at all.
     
    erik, Jul 26, 2012
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    mochaultimate Notebook Consultant

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    I received an ES i7-2620m with my T420 last year. I used the system for 1+ years without even realizing it.

    It would be interesting to know what kind of recourse I'd have if I noticed it earlier, it could even be the retailer doing a bait-and-switch, but since the system worked flawlessly I guess I didn't really feel the urge to pursue the matter.

    I got the same results from HWinfo and CPUiD so I assumed it was indeed an ES chip.
     
    mochaultimate, Jul 26, 2012
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  4. Pseudorandom

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    It can make you bacon. Generally ES chips don't make it into production models because the factory workers steal them so they can have all the bacon to themselves.

    Umm... An actual answer...
    It's probably a problem with CoreTemp. There have been a lot of cases of where CoreTemp reports the CPU wrong. See what CPU-Z reports. ES chips don't really have a way of making it into laptops that are sold.
     
    Pseudorandom, Jul 26, 2012
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    It's a CoreTemp issue, use CPU-Z, it's better anyways
     
    OCM, Jul 26, 2012
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    Some of those tools are not up to date on the most recent chips, for example it's possible that when Coretemp was last updated the 3320M still only existed as engineer samples. I wouldn't worry about it at all.
     
    hmmwv, Jul 26, 2012
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    On both of the t430 that I have it says the same thing! Ok but I ran other stuff like you guys suggested and yea it doesn't say anything anymore about ES
     
    MrSatan, Jul 26, 2012
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