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Old 04-30-2008, 07:48 PM   #6 (permalink)
Respital
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Originally Posted by Cromewell View Post
This was already discussed in amd releassing triple cpu???

It's purely a yeild increasing thing. If one core isn't functioning properly they turn it off and sell it as a 3-core instead of a quad core.
Oh sorry about that i looked at the last page and didn't see it.
Interesting.. so does that mean that some quads can be octos ?
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Originally Posted by Nevakonaza View Post
i would rather spend the extra and get a q6600 from intel.
Ya i would too.
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