Quote Originally Posted by geo View Post
but why would AMD give out an ES to a guy who cant seem to figure out that the ES he's got is crippled ?
Crippled ES chips could be used to test early motherboard and/or bios compatibility. During early motherboard development phases the only question is "will it work" and not "will it work well."

Later they would want to issue non-crippled chips for stress and performance testing; but they can keep much tighter control of the non-crippled chips. (If this truly is an early crippled ES sample it is probably 6 months old if not older... because at this time I would expect non-crippled chips to be issued by now.)