Intel Engineering Sample's (ES)

[roast]

Hey all,

I recently came across some old pentium 1 rigs in my shed, and decided to fire them up to see if they still work. One of the boards had some leaking caps, but still worked fine (Bit of a shocker there)

I then decided to have a look at the CPU's. One of the P1's has a heatsink hard-mounted to it (the fan is removeable, but the base of the HS isnt)
Underneath the proc itself, it says Pentium 1 ES.
I compared this against the other proc (Which doesnt have an integrated HS) and it doesnt have the ES branding on it.

Is this actually an ES chip? How would I find out? If so, is it actually worth anything?

I'm thinking of putting together these builds again so I can run a proper DOSBox for my older games. Windows 98, I'm thinking would be nice on it.

Thanks for any info,
Mick.

 

[Frick]

A Pentium 2/3 would be more suitable for that imo. YOu might want to play some "heavy" games on it.

 

[brandonwh64]

install windows and check CPUz and see what it says

 

[roast]

install windows and check CPUz and see what it says

Didnt even think of it....

I'll be with those rigs again next week (They're at my old house) so we'll see what CPUZ says.