Phenom II x3 710 run with 4 core!

[Rammsteiner]

If TDP is the reason they are converting those quads to triple cores why cant AMD sell those as Quads with a bigger TDP for the same price ?

Because motherboards weren't build for that, now they un-officially let you run 4 cores but if the disabled one was defective or needed more power they wont get hurt by this. Also if it needed more TDP and the motherboard cant handle that and blows up, the only guilty one is the user

Im sure there's quite some good working disabled cores, however it ain't guaranteed.

Although somehow I think there might be just a BIOS bug, this certainly might boost sales if the majority of the triple cores works flawless with 4 cores. If the bug would be removed (aka, it was unwanted), pretty sure there will be some modded BIOS's.

[STEvil]

Because motherboards weren't build for that, now they un-officially let you run 4 cores but if the disabled one was defective or needed more power they wont get hurt by this. Also if it needed more TDP and the motherboard cant handle that and blows up, the only guilty one is the user

Im sure there's quite some good working disabled cores, however it ain't guaranteed.

Although somehow I think there might be just a BIOS bug, this certainly might boost sales if the majority of the triple cores works flawless with 4 cores. If the bug would be removed (aka, it was unwanted), pretty sure there will be some modded BIOS's.

If the motherboard manufacturer did not build their board with appropriate headroom there is no way it would live for very long without failure anyways.