
Nemo128
Audioholic Field Marshall
Concur, looks good.without knowing exact model #s it seems ok, have you tried this
Concur, Prime and HotCPUTester, defly better than Everest for torture testing.Don't use Everest for torture testing use Prime.
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Concur, it can be done but with disasterous results. Do you like your BSODs shaken or stirred?I would not try this as most of the X3's are X3's because one of the cores had an issue in manufacturing.
GPUs are not binned the same way CPUs are. The resources Intel and AMD throw into binning CPUs would cost ATI (prior to AMD's aquisition) and nVidia greatly. Especially since neither chipset company manufacturers their own chips (prior to blah blah) and relies on external fab plants to manufacture them. GPUs are simply firmware writes that block access to functions in the chipset. More features = higher pricetag.My old video card ATI Radeon X800 GTO2 original had 12 pipelines, X850 XT had 16 pipes and higher clock. With easy bios mod I was able to achieve latter specs on my GTO2 card, which was at the time of purchase $80-100 cheaper.
Very few successful X3-X4 attempts out there that passed torture testing. I'm sure for the casual user it would be fine, but if someone is a casual user, what's even the point of unlocking the 4th core? Basic apps aren't SMP-aware anyway. Then there's the multi-tasking discussion.
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