Hot hot hot! The new CPU AMD can be unlocked to 4 core!

[informal]

Where are you getting your $50 cost figure from? I hope you are not making this figure up.

Your hope has nothing to do with it.It's an "insider" info I got back in the day of 65nm wafers.The picture hasn't changed much,if at all,on 45nm node(it can only be cheaper).

If you weren't such a committed AMD fan, Informal the hypocrite would be highlighting this post, but you are safe.

I see you are going strong on your bitter road there ... One more to add to the list of personal attacks made by C.Boga.

Nice attitude.

Rather than a flippant comment then I would like you to tell me how AMD are going to make money on selling a quad core as a dual core. Anyway you cut it they are losing money on this chip, selling this as a dual simply makes them a smaller loss.

Read my previous post to see why AMD is not losing money on this chip.

@alfaunits

You didn't understand one important bit when it comes to "tuned for performance".If a die fails to meet the targets and was made on the wafer with before mentioned optimization,it will fail either as high TDP part or a low EE part.AMD does have certain TDP segments and it can't go beyond them due to design constraints on the motherboard level.
And sorry i put it badly at the end,I see you get what I wanted to say .

Hm. MY question is: Do I spend $ on this and an AMD board? Do I just upgrade to Intel Quad using my current 775 board?

You upgrade to a better CPU in your existing s775 board,an easy solution .