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Wow, that's interesting! Do you know if somebody tried to enable one of this "extra cores"?
by GTP 11y ago
Wow, that's interesting! Do you know if somebody tried to enable one of this "extra cores"?
- jotm 11y agoHaha, of course they did. http://www.tomsguide.com/forum/id-2142984/amd-phenom-710-4th-core-unlock.html http://www.tomsguide.com/forum/id-2142984/amd-phenom-710-4th... AMD used to software-disable the 4th core on the Phenoms, but then they switched to disabling them by hardware, so that rendered any software means useless. AMD only disabled the cores to save on manufacturing - most of the time, these cores were not working properly. But as the process got better, people got 4 or more cores for the price of 2-3 :-D
- jevinskie 11y agoThe PS3 disabled 1/8 SPUs for yield and you can try to reenable it: http://ps3devwiki.com/ps3/Unlocking_the_8th_SPE http://ps3devwiki.com/ps3/Unlocking_the_8th_SPE Good luck if it turns out the disabled SPU is actually bad!