[citation][nom]borisof007[/nom]AMD Fail, isn't the first time this happened.
Anyone remember the triple core into a quad core a while back?[/citation]
You need to visit the forums more often my good friend.
That thing still going on as we speak.
AM3 Smeprons and be unlocked to dual cores
Athlon II x3 can be unlocked to x4's
Phenom II x2/x3 and be unlocked to x4's
Phenom II x4 xxxT can be unlocked to x6's (although these X4 T's are OEM cpu's last i checked.)
It's really not a fail to have hardware unlocked to something better. It in fact has turned into more of a selling point.
Although as we all mentioned on the forums, unlocking a cpu is not going to happen. If you bought something like a tri-core cpu, you should expect it to run as such and think of it as a bonus if it does unlock.
[citation][nom]borisof007[/nom]It is a fail when there's no countermeasures put in place by AMD to stop this sort of thing. Regardless of whether the chip itself was binned to be a 6950 over a 6970. This happened before with their CPU's, and it just seems like they don't care enough to do anything about it, or they didn't invest enough time/money to prevent this sort of thing from happening.[/citation]
Oh amd has tried to prevent but i think they given up on such as everyone (including motherboard makers) have fought back.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/gigabyte-motherboard-amd-phenom-cpu,8015.html
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=AMD+blocks+core+unlocking
Another reason why they probably dont appear to being doing anything about it, Have you though about whats going to be coming Sometime mid next year?
Bulldozer. Maybe there wont be unlockable cores as it is an cpu thats been changed around that cores aren't like what we know of them now.
But anyways, why keep on getting on AMD back about this stuff. Intel and Nvidia does this as well.
GTX 465 into GTX 470
Pentium Gxxx into a core i3 via buying some card for a paticular brand (like gateway) at best buy or something the nature of.
Those 2 are the most recent "Unlocking in someway to get better performance" from them. Everyone does this.