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Overclocking brings up another example - a lot of AMD CPUs have extra cores that can be unlocked. They're manufactured as the higher-end chips, then just have c
by stordoff 8y ago
Overclocking brings up another example - a lot of AMD CPUs have extra cores that can be unlocked. They're manufactured as the higher-end chips, then just have cores disabled. Sometimes due to defects, but often they work just fine.
- Scoundreller 8y agoI recall some video card where you could change a resistor and fool the card into realizing all of the extra capacity it was built with and had available.
- maccard 8y agoMuch of that is related to binning rather than price gouging - https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/glossary-binning-definition,5892.html https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/glossary-binning-defini...
- AlexTWithBeard 8y agoTIL: binning
- Scoundreller 8y agoIf that was 100% true, then Intel wouldn’t multiplier lock its chips.