Quote Originally Posted by JF-AMD View Post
Can you elaborate? I am not following your question.
they are the same thing (or have corresponding electrically identical parts parts), they just have a different laser etch on the IHS and name on the cpu ID (and the testing and binning for opterons but thats not needed for a phenom). so for a mangy since all of the testing is done on the opterons and that is were u would pull from, then u would not have to do more testing just send out a small batch with a different etching and an unlocked multi and maybe a high VID as u can change the multi on some boards but not the VID. send it out to some benchers and get a huge jump on CB and Wprime