Quick question: B3 or G0 stepping?

[tensim]

Just looking through the various areas of Everest Ultimate and I opened up the CPUID tab... it lists the 'Microcode update revision' as being B3; does this mean I have a Q6600 B3?

cheers

[chuckskull]

Yup.

[tensim]

Really? I definitely ordered a SLACR G0 stepping Q6600 of Scan... have they gipped me?

[Tetras]

Try CPU-Z (http://www.cpuid.com).

I can't believe Scan have had any B3 revision for a loooooong time.

[chuckskull]

Really? I definitely ordered a SLACR G0 stepping Q6600 of Scan... have they gipped me?

It's possible your Everest is out of date and doesn't recognise the newer stepping. As already suggested try CPU-Z. It's very good.

[tensim]

CPU-Z reports the CPU as B stepping G0 revision... I'm assuming this means it's a G0 stepping Q6600?

Strange thing though, whenever I run CPU-Z it causes my system to hang (done it 3 times now, forcing a hard reset)... does it have compatability issues with other programs running (like Everest, Coretemp and uGuru)? Or Vista 64?

Also, my version of Everest should be the latest, it's version 4.50.1330... just ran the Everest CPUID utility, it shows G0 stepping (but when you click on the actual tab on the left hand side for CPUID it shows the 'Microcode Update Revision' as B3)... confused...

[Tetras]

You should try not to run many monitoring programs at the same time, conflicts can and do occur.

Microcode update revision has nothing to do with the CPU core stepping. You have a G0.

[joz12345]

you hav a g0 stepping for sure, but i hav no idea why cpu z is hanging

[tensim]

cool... sorry for the drama

cheers!

[inonefly]

old cpu-z have the hanging probs with vista64 in my machine, i tried the newest version and now it's all fine (cpu-z 1.45)