Phenom 9900 - Page 3

Mac Daddy · 17th May 2008, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Cyberwarrior

In other words:Rejects

My thoughts but have no solid info to be sure

Chai · 17th May 2008, 09:55 AM

Why would you want to disable working core, it has to be disabled cores, looking at AMD financially now.

Adrian Wong · 17th May 2008, 01:44 PM

Actually, they have no choice but to create the tri-cores. With a monolithic quad-core design, they will end up with a bunch of chips that have 1-3 dead cores. Their yields of fully-functioning quad-cores are so low that they either have to price them very high or start selling defective chips to stay afloat.

There should be a rather large availability of chips with 1-2 dead/faulty cores. So, if they are going to sell some of them as dual-cores, why not tri-cores? It will generate some revenue from these partially-defective CPUs.

Mac Daddy · 18th May 2008, 12:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

Actually, they have no choice but to create the tri-cores. With a monolithic quad-core design, they will end up with a bunch of chips that have 1-3 dead cores. Their yields of fully-functioning quad-cores are so low that they either have to price them very high or start selling defective chips to stay afloat.

There should be a rather large availability of chips with 1-2 dead/faulty cores. So, if they are going to sell some of them as dual-cores, why not tri-cores? It will generate some revenue from these partially-defective CPUs.

Makes sense to me like factory seconds at cheaper prices

goldfries · 19th May 2008, 10:27 AM

i look at the pricing for AMD processors, while the tri-core processors are cheap. the quad-core version is actually worth more $$$ per core.

why would anyone want an X3 8450 when X4 9550 is just a like RM 40 extra (around RM 13 USD).

The_YongGrand · 19th May 2008, 02:13 PM

Wow... they are cheap.

But do you think they will still fit on casual AM2 boards (not AM2+ ones).

Adrian Wong · 19th May 2008, 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_YongGrand

Wow... they are cheap.

But do you think they will still fit on casual AM2 boards (not AM2+ ones).

Yeah, the Phenoms will work on AM2 motherboards.

Cyberwarrior · 19th May 2008, 03:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_YongGrand

Wow... they are cheap.

But do you think they will still fit on casual AM2 boards (not AM2+ ones).

Is that your rabbit????

The_YongGrand · 19th May 2008, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

Yeah, the Phenoms will work on AM2 motherboards.

As AMD claimed it, of course it'll work!

But, as seen from many Newegg reviews, I heard that they have troubles booting up when they put a Phenom into a basic AM2 board even after a BIOS update! Strange...

I think the flash rom thing has something to do there, maybe the capacity. Anyone tried that before?

Lacus · 20th May 2008, 10:57 PM

well, if i not mistaken..Not all AM2 mobo supports Phenom (due to some power mosfet thingie)Phenom is using 125 w or tdp(something like that ) can't really recall >_<..Thats why most major brand fails sometimes =/

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