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Awesome... well that pretty much proves it for me. seems like it is the real deal for a handful of these processors... makes me wonder why the hell AMD disabled the 4th core if it was not factory defunk like they said....
Well, I tried to explain how I was told by people I knew in manufacturing how QA worked, and what might have happened.
But, I got shot down.
Seems that people don't believe AMD would take a lot/group/tray of processors that a certain number tested them bad and take them to the X3 testing line to see if they qualify enough.
I guess people think they test every processor, make only 1 type per manufacturing line, and just throw out what doesn't do exactly what they want them to.
Oh well.
I just think it's funny...there was a way to lock/unlock the core(s)...and, a BIOS maker implemented it as a feature.
WTG AMI :lol:
To be honest? I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing was able to be done with some of the dual cores that will come out...unless AMD changes their manufacturing process. They set the on-die ACC to only talk to a certain # of cores...but when the motherboard (790 chipset) ACC takes over, then it talks to all the cores on Auto.
Be cool if you could buy a dual core and it be quad :lol: