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And the next generation of digital delinquents will feel the need to one up there predecessors to garner attention. Won't be long until some attention seeker causes actual damage/physical harm by there actions. God forbid they take a liking to railroads/air traffic control/etc.

Very interesting indeed, I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of situations this will be utilized in first. http://www.fastcolabs.com/3038890/rohinnis-lightpaper-is-incredibly-thin-and-printable

Count me in! I am looking forward to the chance to replace my 280X crossfire power hog set-up with a single card replacement and this would fit the bill perfectly. Damn, I sure miss my 670's. The low power usage of the 980's and 970's is what has most piqued my interest.

I'm in, found your forum and YT channel a year or so ago. I always save your vids to watch on slow boring work days.

According to the Catzilla 1.3 changelog the new cards are the 870&880. No mention of 9xx. Consider this rumor crushed. http://www.catzilla.com/community/changelog

SIZE! I'd love to retire my old G53JW, it's like lugging around a cinderblock everywhere.

Update-Gamester3333 (OCN mnember) is getting closer to figuring this out. Unfortunately, but as I expected, the owner of the CPU has sold both the chip and motherboard. No details are available but my guess is someone made him an offer he couldn't refuse. Still though we have a lot of data and willing guinea pigs to carry on with the process.

4 free threads would be the icing on an i5 for sure. This could have implications extending even to i3's, what features could be turned on in them if this mystery gets solved? Oh, and if it does get solved how much you want to bet Broadwell gets delayed? Intel would either have to offer a SIGNIFICANT performance increase to entice owners of suddenly hyperthreaded i5's or spend the extra time making damn sure no future CPU's can be unlocked as well.

I'm siding with those who think that L3 cache is lasered off but other features (HT,unlocked multi, and who knows what else) are disabled or enabled within the microcode. Here is a quote from the article I linked above, "Hold onto your hyperthreaded horses, because this is liable to whip up an angry mob -- Intel's asking customers to pay extra if they want the full power of their store-bought silicon. An eagle-eyed Engadget reader was surfing the Best Buy shelves when he noticed this $50 card -- and sure enough, Intel websites confirm -- that lets you download softwareto unlock extra threads and cache on the new Pentium G6951 processor." That was an experiment Intel conducted on an 1156 CPU. Could this feature have been integrated into 1155 CPU's but never implemented by Intel in the market?

This is a link to a 3-year old story someone posted on OCN. Relevant? http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/18/intel-wants-to-charge-50-to-unlock-stuff-your-cpu-can-already-d/

In hindsight, I agree completely. I forgot that the purported 3570k was already "golden" before it was unlocked.

You should have a look at his overclocks since the "unlock". 4.5/1.08v and I believe 5/1.18v, you'll have to suspend disbelief long enough to check out his screenshots and validations.

He has live streamed benches, validations, etc to prove it. It would appear that Hyperthreading is enabled/disabled within the CPU's microcode. Comparison of the microcode between a 3570k and 3770k shows a difference of only a few characters (encrypted of course). I believe that it is a 3570k and it is hyperthreaded but I am very skeptical that they will ever be able to reproduce it.

(I am re-posting this here in Tech News as another member suggested. I apologize for the duplicate threads.) I know, I know, you're jumping to the same conclusion I did...........FAKE! But, 60+ pages of discussion/study of the CPU (live streamed validations, benches, BIOS dumps, etc, etc) have proven that the CPU in question is actually Hyperthreading. He has no idea how it happened but comparison of the microcode between his 3570k and a 3770k show that there is only a difference of a small number of characters (encrypted of course) between the two. A few OCN members knowledgeable on the subject are investigating to see if the hyperthreading can be reproduced in another 3570k. If they succeed it may, in theory, mean that HT can be unlocked in all 1155 i5's. Let that sink in a moment. Goodbye i7 sales. I'll not bore you with anymore details I barely understand but will close with the link below. Oh, be sure to check out his screenshots. http://www.overclock...d-4c-8t/0_100

I believe it based on what I have read, I just don't believe yet that they will be able to reproduce it. FINGERS CROSSED! I also hope that if they figure it out they disseminate the "how-to" as far and wide across the internet as they can before Intel decides to "protect" their "intellectual properties". Considering how such a discovery would absolutely destroy i7 sales they would be foolish to let the information out unchallenged.