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Originally posted by K6-III Makes perfect sense...a great way to use defective A64's for something useful...
ROFL
If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
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Originally posted by K6-III Makes perfect sense...a great way to use defective A64's for something useful...
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%
(I seem to remember having heard somewhere of a certain company doing exactly this...)
Originally 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? :?
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 lights
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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 .
Originally posted by az They cut bridges, but they're under the heatspreader.
AZ
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.
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