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Intel wants to charge 50 bucks to unlock preexisting features on your processor
Natheria:
That actually reminded me of AMD's tri core CPUs that jut got pirate unlocked later to the original quad. XD
bork:
I dislike it when manufactures do this to a product that has been sold to you; but doing things like this have been around for a bit.
IBM did it for a long time with their mainframes. We called IBM up to order additional memory for one of the 390's we had, guy comes out and insert a jumper and then leaves. We just spent a few thousand dollars for a jumper! It was already installed because it was cheaper for IBM to install it in machines when they were first build than to field install it at a later date. They figured out that most customers would eventually order memory upgrades at a later data anyway. I could almost see the reasoning in this type of case were they were adding actual additional hardware to a machine, then playing with the odds that enough customers would order memory upgrades to offset the cost of installing it into all their machines at time of manufacture.
In Intel case though, there are no two types of chips. Its one chip that comes with parts turned off that allow them to charge money to remove the block. Its like buying a car with the throttle that can open only half way, then charging you to remove the throttle block allowing it go to full open.
Mag-X:
--- Quote from: Natheria on September 19, 2010, 04:02:11 PM ---That actually reminded me of AMD's tri core CPUs that jut got pirate unlocked later to the original quad. XD
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It's not the same. AMD disables cores or cache because they're defective in some way. They don't like it when you unlock the disabled sections of the processors. Video cards are the same way. A Radeon 5850 is just a 5870 with cores disabled. A GTX 470 is a GTX 480 with cores disabled. Even the 480 ships with a bank of cores disabled.
Intel wouldn't allow an unlock if they weren't 100% sure that the CPU would work.
My current system is Intel, but with crap like this, and the upcoming CPUs being unable to be overclocked unless you pay more for the special K series is bullshit. I think this will be my first and only Intel system. Now if only it wasn't so hard to find an AMD motherboard that can do SLI. >:(
mgz:
--- Quote from: Mag-X on September 19, 2010, 05:14:21 PM ---
--- Quote from: Natheria on September 19, 2010, 04:02:11 PM ---That actually reminded me of AMD's tri core CPUs that jut got pirate unlocked later to the original quad. XD
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It's not the same. AMD disables cores or cache because they're defective in some way. They don't like it when you unlock the disabled sections of the processors. Video cards are the same way. A Radeon 5850 is just a 5870 with cores disabled. A GTX 470 is a GTX 480 with cores disabled. Even the 480 ships with a bank of cores disabled.
Intel wouldn't allow an unlock if they weren't 100% sure that the CPU would work.
My current system is Intel, but with crap like this, and the upcoming CPUs being unable to be overclocked unless you pay more for the special K series is bullshit. I think this will be my first and only Intel system. Now if only it wasn't so hard to find an AMD motherboard that can do SLI. >:(
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just dont run SLI get a single better video card and it often will cost less and do just as well
relic2279:
Intel has been doing that since my first PC. 486 DX... 486 DX had a math co-processor the SX came with one but it wasn't enabled.
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