Quote Originally Posted by G80 View Post
Dosent make sense. Do they profit somehow when they disable an existing core?, Why not just let it function as it normaly would?.
Actaully, it does make sense. AMD has designed a rather large die for their quad core, the side effect of doing monolithic. If one core has one defect, rendering one transistor useless, then that core is dead. They cannot sell it has a quad core because one of the 4 cores is nonfunctional.

They now have a choice, throw away that defective quad core and get no money for it, or disable one core call it a tri-core and sell it for something, albiet less than they would sell it as a quad.

It is not hard to understand, get something or get nothing. AMD chose to get something.