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How were you able to link the two? I've searched and searched and couldn't find it...

I tend to look in Wikipedia tables to get the information I need on the processors. In this case, the following table has two entries for the two different "xeon 5300" series steppings (B3 and G0).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_(microarchitecture)#Steppings_using_65nm_process

An Intel CPUID is composed of codes for Family, Model, and Stepping. So of the two CPUs, the CPUIDs are:
06F7
06FB

B is hexadecimal for 11. Looking at the stepping column for that row is G0.

Now maybe that's a huge coincidence, so I then searched for (not sure exactly), something like "stepping 11 G0" just to see if I could find them together anywhere and found this, which seems to confirm it:
https://serverfault.com/questions/3...-betwwen-two-xeon-cpus-with-stepping-11-and-7

I sure hope somebody actually makes use of this information some day. :rolleyes: But I don't mind spending the time--I find it to be interesting.
 
I tend to look in Wikipedia tables to get the information I need on the processors. ...

I sure hope somebody actually makes use of this information some day. :rolleyes: But I don't mind spending the time--I find it to be interesting.
Quite the sleuth! Thanks for the sources too!
 
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