How does a quad core unlock to five cores?

I always thought that was a neat socket. I mean, DDR2 and DDR3 on the same board supporting two generations of CPUs.

S U C C

@Trik'Stari AMD (and pretty much any CPU/GPU vendor) don't have a line for each and every CPU. They'll design maybe a couple mid or high end ones, and then disable features on the ones that don't perform well and sell them as lower end chips. For AM3, many quad core chips are 6 core silicon with 2 cores disabled, the 3 core chips were quad cores, etc, usually because a core or 2 ended up being faulty during fabrication.

It helps increase usable silicon by re-using what would otherwise have been scrap.

However, when yields start to get good and they get a ton of perfect dies, they'll disable fully functioning cores and sell them as lower end chips to meet the demands.

IIRC ryzen 5 had a batch where they forgot to disable the last two cores https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-5-1600x-cpus-8-working-cores-spotted-wild/

And intel forgot to disable ECC memory support on one of their pentiums https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/82723/intel-pentium-processor-g3258-3m-cache-3-20-ghz.html

So a LOT of the midrange stuff we buy is actually a top end product with shit disabled

Can't wait for it to borderline catch fire like my N68C-GS FX did.

@flibberdipper  cnps9900 max gang gon' keep it cool

I knew about the disabling of cores and other functions, what I never understood is why they didn't recycle it.

I also didn't know you could just re-enable some of that stuff.

Speaking of disabled functionality, it pisses me off that to make my rig "secure", I'd need to disable the one thing that differentiates it from a 7600k. Namely Hyperthreading.

@Trik'Stari I could be wrong, but I think there were some hacks that would let you enable GPU cores that had been disabled on certain models.

@Trik'Stari Re-enabling disabled stuff is pretty rare. AM3, AMD's HD 6950, and just a few select other things are all I'm aware of. They almost always laser off the stuff they don't want you to have access to, or disable them through other means. AM3 and HD6950 were both really just disabled through firmware of the board.

I'm now wondering if there is any shennanigandery that I could pull on my first gen 1080ti FE.

Very unlikely. The 1070 was a core disabled 1080, as were a ton of other things:

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gp104.g793

The 1080Ti core was also used on teslas and titans, which did have more cores

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gp102.g798

But they almost certainly disabled them using a laser, not software

@iamdarkyoshi my guy how will a CPU cooler keep the northbridge from getting hot enough to smoke like mine did

@flibberdipper Because it throws out a ton of air from the sides of the cooler onto the other stuff

@iamdarkyoshi I had the same cooler on mine dog

@flibberdipper I'll make it work, trust me

I was the one who ran a phenom 1090t on a board with a 4 phase VRM with no case fans or heatsink on the VRMs

Nice.

Just an observation, am I the only one proud of my community reputation? I was looking at yours iamdarkyoshi, and remembered my own.

I remembered back before they changed the reputation system, my goal was to surpass Linus on his own forum lol.

The thing with linus though is he could respond with "poop" and get more reputation points than anyone else because its linus

The key is to be @Den-Fi and just post non-stop pornography to whore rep.

@flibberdipper funny how people can say some things that just instantly get the attention of staff members....

@fippderdipper I used to shitpost to that effect.

It worked. almost 20,000 points.