Quote Originally Posted by roofsniper View Post
idk i was just looking at the fact that locked 710 is 56.99(have to get down to the pennies now because you can't tell a difference between 99 cents and 0 cents) cheaper than the locked 810 and both the chips run at 2.6ghz. close of a comparison as you can get for triple vs quad phenoms besides the fact that the 810 has a 4mb l3. and i compared the 720 to the 940 because they both happen to be unlocked although the 720 is only 2.8ghz. yes the 720 and the 920 both run at 2.8ghz but the 720 is unlocked and is am3. and where are you getting this 144 to 184 thing from? last time i checked the 720 is 145 and the 920 is 190. so i really don't know where you are getting your facts from but w/e. so if you think im trying to do some kind of trick to make the difference look much bigger you are wrong. don't know how you think you are getting flamed but w/e, and yes if this trick does work and you can turn on another core it isn't guaranteed to get you one because some cores work and were just downcored and some are bad cores and i would not recommend someone to get a 720 if they wanted to get a quad just because they could turn another one on. so just chill out when im trying to point of obvious facts, its not like im playing mind tricks.
Very nice side step. But had you paid close attention, you'd see I was speaking UP for AMD, not trashing them. You wouldn't know a fact if it bit you on the @$S Again, I'd said I mentioned this on another thread. Still got jumped by AMD Fans. Here's that post I was talking about and look at the thread's Date?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=106

Quote Originally Posted by Donnie27
Sure but what if that 4th core isn't broke but just real slow? What if they binned it and figured out that 3 Cores are good running at 2.2GHz and 4th can only reach 1.8GHz? Failed doesn't mean just broke. So, do they slow all the cores to 1.8 or sell 3 cores as 2.2GHz? This IMHO is what's *also going on as well. The mix and matching of 4 cores is almost endless. For instance a Dual Core@2.8 Costs more than a Quad Core at 2.2GHz. After binning the Quad Core AMD finds that 2 cores will only do 2.2GHz and the other 2 does 2.8 or better, sure AMD will kill the two slower cores and sell it as a 2.8GHz Dual Core. Wouldn't you?

I think folks want to be able to overclock each core independently because they know one or two of those cores might just be screamers. I agree with them.
Now please show what's wrong with that post?