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AMD shipped CPUs for quite some time where if you were lucky you could unlock additional cores that had been disabled for various reasons
by martin8412 3y ago
AMD shipped CPUs for quite some time where if you were lucky you could unlock additional cores that had been disabled for various reasons
- adra 3y agoThese were likely sold down due to demand imbalance or more likely due to QA failures in the disabled cores. It's a lot cheaper to get some value from a defective chip than no money. So... by all means try to unlock more cores but don't start whining when your computer acts like Windows ME on a good day (only crashing a few dozen times a day! So stable!)
- slenk 3y agoI tried that on my 3-core something back in the day. I was not one of the lucky ones.