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Pentium 4

April 2nd, 2005 08:12 AM

Remember when the pentium III's came out? each CPU had a serial number that would biscally let intel track you? or sometihng like that? i am considering building a pentium 4 (i run SETI @home, Folding @home, and BOINC, and these CPU's can run two instances of whever program i choose to run). biscally, what i want to know is does the pentium 4 have the same issue? Thanks!

1916262

Re: Pentium 4

April 2nd, 2005 08:44 AM

i havent heard of any doing so, but that doesnt mean it doesnt have the issue

1916450

Re: Pentium 4

April 2nd, 2005 10:33 AM

Every CPU ever made has a serial number, but no one is tracking you with it.
your a being a little to paranoid!

1916771

Re: Pentium 4

April 2nd, 2005 01:24 PM

there was a "bug" intel clamed it was in the security features with the pentium 3 cpu's that would let people track you via the serial code, or something like that, i can not remember exactly, it was in the year 2000 i heard it

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Re: Pentium 4

April 2nd, 2005 03:04 PM

well i dunno but id say that it would almost certainly be wiped out now