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Socket 754, same clockspeed as A64 3200+, but smaller L2 cache, for 250 EUR.
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woah!!! nice. finally!
now I am waiting for a Socket 939 A64 FX
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Makes perfect sense...a great way to use defective A64's for something useful...Let us return to the moon, to stay!!!Comment
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ROFLOriginally posted by K6-III
Makes perfect sense...a great way to use defective A64's for something useful...
If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."Comment
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Well at least they don't sell it as a fully operational A64 at the full price - and then add a small text on their website that cache size might vary +/- 50%Originally posted by K6-III
Makes perfect sense...a great way to use defective A64's for something useful... 
(I seem to remember having heard somewhere of a certain company doing exactly this...)Comment
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Good move.Comment
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well it seems that that athlon beats the intel 3.2GHz in eight of the nine benchmarks, and one of them by 27%.
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is that what they are really doing?
Sorry for the n00bness, but how is it possible tho, just cut out the defective cache? :?Comment
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It's not like the first time they do it, think Thorton (neutered Barton).Comment
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You don't have to cut it out, you just blow some fuses so that you don't try to use it. It's like having a blown bulb in a string of Christmas lightsOriginally posted by Chrono_Wanderer
is that what they are really doing?
Sorry for the n00bness, but how is it possible tho, just cut out the defective cache? :?
Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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And Intel does/did the same with their Celeron - and ATi does/did the same with the Radeon9500 and 9800SE products. And NVidia does a similar thing with their "XT" cards.
And Matrox does... - no wait, they're selling the defective chips just lower clocked at the same price as the full clocked retail .
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Speaking from design experience, intel doesn't just use bridges. They have one-time fuses on the silicon that can't be fixed. They can be blown after packaging.Originally posted by az
They cut bridges, but they're under the heatspreader.
AZGigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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Probably as you say, but as can be seen with Thorton and Applebred, all AMD uses is the bridges.Comment
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ah, that makes a lot of sense. that's a very smart way to sell defective stuff!Comment
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