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Waldo Pepper · 20-06-2010, 22:34

I wouldn't be surprised. I cannot remember all those Intel numbers and what exactly each one stood for but they used to sell CPUs with failed maths co-processors as legit x86 chips (i486DX sold as i486SX I think).

20-06-2010, 22:34	#3
Waldo Pepper Inactive Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: In the thick of East Anglia Posts: 573	Re: Does your AMD Phenom 2 have hidden cores? I wouldn't be surprised. I cannot remember all those Intel numbers and what exactly each one stood for but they used to sell CPUs with failed maths co-processors as legit x86 chips (i486DX sold as i486SX I think).