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The 1090T and 1055T have 6mb cache on the L3, no? If they lost 1/3 the core physically, they'd have to cut the L3 behind the 2 dead cores along with it. They'd be forced to use them as Athlon II X4 CPUs which would be a bigger loss than locking 2 cores and selling them as higher end PII X4 procs.

I agree, it won't happen any time soon. But as we both agree, it will be happening which is contradictory to what the AMD rep is saying.

I'm calling shens. There's no way that those 6 core chips are all 100% functional and at the cost of each wafer they make I can't see AMD shrugging their collective shoulders, saying "Oh well" and chucking them into a shredder. Nope. I'll put dollars to doughnuts that once we start seeing a...

FPS games are good, I need to have some fun. The DDR2-1100 will run me about the same price as DDR2-800 and finding cas 4-4-4-12 800 is not an easy thing any longer. Unfortunately.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssd_drive Looking up disadvantages in the above linked article will underline why I think SSD will not be found in mainstream computing for a good while. Flash memory is good for a finite number of reads/writes. When using a SSD for windows with the swap file on the...

I'm using Turbo V for the M4NXX EVO 980a based board which is the twin slot variant I mentioned. I used a couple of Vista 64 bit utilities for my board which worked fine. I plan on upgrading to 4 gigs of DDR2-1100 here soon, I just didn't see a huge need to do it right away. The only trouble is...

Recently I upgraded from an aging M2N32-SLI Deluxe and Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (Brisbane core, 65W) to a new M4N82 Deluxe and Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition. While the M2N supports the 940BE it doesn't support anything above that nor offer core unlocking. Sure, you CAN make the 955 and 965 quads...

So, I gotta ask, how does it feel? I know that going from my X2 4000+ to the 940BE my PC feels more responsive than ever, even more so than when I was running the 4000+ at close to 3.2Ghz. Good read, too bad the mobo was flaky. I'd like to have seen what it was capable of when you cranked it...

Not to mention a much lower price.

It's a double edged sword. On the one hand, if you disclose that your trip was sponsored you're being honest but on the other, if you disclose it and you're favorable about the results of the junket you can be thought to be favorable simply because you're indebted to the sponsor.

Yay! I can't wait for them to filter down into FS sections for 50%-75% of new pricing. The main selling point of my new mobo was it being six core capable. :)

A month ago a co-worker approached me about fixing his 2004 Gateway socket 478 crap box with a dead mobo. I look on the 'egg, find a mobo that fills the bill and as he had 512Mb ram, ordered 1gig more. Gets here and it's a DDR2 mobo... I missed that bit. Save the DDR as it was cheap and go local...

Well, it didn't go quite as well as I thought. Tried running 3DMark '06 and there's corruption and there's some high pitched roaring type noise coming through the speakers. Back to the drawing board. :(

I put the 940 and M4N82 in last night and it booted into Vista without a hiccup. Amazingly it (Vista) didn't complain about the new mobo or BSOD. Hell, it didn't even want to be activated again which I find utterly flabbergasting. A while back the M2N took a dump on me and had to be RMA'd, when...