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they weren't "Caught" - binning is a common practice in the cpu industrty. this isn't a problem

• StillBored 7y ago
  I wasn't talking about binning, I was talking about when you have binned at a certain level, but the product is sold under its capability because you want to maintain the illusion of scarcity of the better parts. AKA its a perfect part, but its being sold with a couple cores disabled or at a frequency below whats its capable of.
  • johncolanduoni 7y ago
    That’s part of binning and is common across manufacturers. There used to be some nvidia chips where you could reprogram the firmware and have a decent chance at getting a quadro for a fraction of the cost.
  • LegitShady 7y ago
    You won't even know if it's a perfect part. There is likely a microscopic defect on a part of the cpu they can turn off that disqualified it from being perfect or having a feature of the high end part.