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That "surprise" is very reminiscent of their old X3 line of CPU's where they disabled 1 core for "yield" reasons. But, if you had the right motherboard you coul
by bitmapbrother 9y ago
That "surprise" is very reminiscent of their old X3 line of CPU's where they disabled 1 core for "yield" reasons. But, if you had the right motherboard you could unlock that 4th core and turn it into an X4.
- onli 9y agoOnly in the beginning though. Later on they changed how X3s were produced and unlocking the 4th core became regularly impossible, either because there was no 4th core or because it really was broken. I had one of those later models... Buy early if you want to profit from this, if that turns out to be possible.
- flyinghamster 9y agoEven some of their early X2s were unlockable. I'm posting this from a system with a Phenom II 550 X2 Black, running with two extra cores enabled. It has been rock-solid from the beginning, as long as I don't try to overclock it. Temperatures stay within limits as well, even with the stock cooler. When compiling a large J2EE project in NetBeans, it is slightly faster than my FX 6100, with both systems running solid-state drives.