Asus turns Phenom II 960T (quad) into hexacore

[STEvil]

yeah but you cant chose which core gets disabled... so maybe the 5th core is damaged and the 6th is fine... but you cant enab;le the 6th without the 5th :/

thats something i think would really be cool and i hope amd and intel do it next gen... being able to chose which core you will use to turbo boost, and being able to disable cores that dont clock well or run really hot

seems to be a cpuz bug... not sure, franck is already looking into it

really? you can select which core to enabled and disable? or just select the amount of cores that are active?

hear hear!
too bad intel doesnt do something like this...
talking about intel... what exactly DOES intel do with quads where 1 or 2 cores dont match their bin? do they throw them away?

oh wait, there are dualcore xeons that are based on quadcore silicon right?
so they sell them as server chips...


not anymore they're not

asus and pegatron split into two companies, and there was and still is quite some tension between them...
asrock is part of pegatron now, and asus is... still asus
in case you didnt notice, asrock and asus have been competing for a year or so already if not longer, even before the companies split up... asus tried to enter the highend segment with their boards and offered the same features as asus boards and was selling them at the same price too... well, they tried for some time

ASRock makes better boards than Asus these says

[saaya]

ASRock makes better boards than Asus these says

better in what regards? price perf? im not surprised

havent used an asus or asrock board in ages, so idk...
sof told me the recent asus boards are pretty good, very stable bios and good efficiency... havent heard of somebody using asrock for quite a while...

i heard a rumor that lots of good engineers decided to join asrock instead of asus when the two split up... no idea if thats true though...

[[XC] Oj101]

better in what regards? price perf? im not surprised

havent used an asus or asrock board in ages, so idk...
sof told me the recent asus boards are pretty good, very stable bios and good efficiency... havent heard of somebody using asrock for quite a while...

i heard a rumor that lots of good engineers decided to join asrock instead of asus when the two split up... no idea if thats true though...

Let me explain:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...1&d=1271597249

[saaya]

Let me explain:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...1&d=1271597249

oh, i see... i think thats more of a support issue than anything else really... they should have released a new revision or released a hardware mod to you guys or offered to fix/upgrade the boards and solve the issue... or at least give you back your money...

this kind of errors can happen to every board maker i think... if they would have handled it properly, all would have been forgiven and forgotten...

Not true, ASRock has had their own engineering staff for the past few years

yes, but i heard quite some people moved from asus to pegatron recently...

so many that asus put a stop to it and people who now want to switch sides have to leave asus and work for a another company for 1 year before they can be hired by asrock.

thats what several people told me...
could be exaggerated or made up tho... theres a lot of gossip about hw companies here in taiwan

[bingo13]

i heard a rumor that lots of good engineers decided to join asrock instead of asus when the two split up... no idea if thats true though...

Not true, ASRock has had their own engineering staff for the past few years and has been filling out positions where ASUS provided support for the last year. ASRock was spun off from ASUS back in 2002 to be exact but some engineering resources (more like consulting recently) have been shared between the two companies for quite some time although that ends shortly. Even though Pegatron will be officially spun off this summer with the completion of the IPO, ASUS will still maintain a 25% shareholder stake in the new company.