Puzzle: HP 6000 has incorrect sticker "Intel inside CORE i5"

[BeemerBiker]

Been helping my son at his new job.  The firm he works at had a windows 7 system that was used to manually backup a Synology server.  

We upgraded the duo CPU to Q9650, installed windows 10,  and configured it to use rsync so that Hyperbackup could run automatically.  We are waiting for an 8gb drive as the Synology was upgraded earlier to 8gb.

I just noticed that the sticker says "i5" and not "core 2"  That cannot be right.  I am guessing that someone charged the firm for an "i5" system but they got an older  core-2 type.  AFAICT the HP 6000 was never sold with an i5 type motherboard.  Maybe the vendor assembled it incorrectly and got confused and put the i5 sticker on instead of core-2?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

You are quite right.

No HP 6000 Pro PC came with an Intel core processor and none were supported.

HP Compaq 6000 Pro Business PC (abt.com)

Is there any other identification on the case?

There should be a silver label on it with the model number and serial number.

However, it is possible that someone just wanted to apply an Intel i5 sticker on the case for whatever reason, or they used a case from the 8100 Elite SFF, which is exactly the same as the case for the 6000 Pro SFF, and the motherboard from the 6000 Pro would be a direct swap.

The 8100 Elite model series supported the Intel 1st gen core processors.

[BeemerBiker]

This is getting interesting.  My son, a newly minted lawyer, was just hired on and is the only one in the firm knowing anything about computers.  A "network guy" was hired to put a system together in 2019.  DS218 NAS and a "backup" station, HP-6000, no keyboard nor monitor running the free Teamviewer.  A backup script is dated 4/2019 and that is the exact date of the last backup.  All the backup did was run robocopy which wont work anymore as the disk is now too small.   I doint think anyone knows how to run Teamviewer and I suspect the "network guy" expected to be hired to do periodic backups remotely.

If the system was put together 2019 then the HP was obviously a used system, and should have gone for $200 at most plus a pair of 2TB disks.  Anything over $500  for the backup system is charging way too much IMHO.    I suspect the i5 was put on to pad the billing but who knows.

on side = HP 6000 probottom of case

[Paul_Tikkanen]

The serial number indicates the PC was made during the 5th calendar week of 2010, which dates it correctly as a HP 6000 Pro, and the Intel processor sticker is just window dressing.