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Multi-million dollar Cheyenne supercomputer auction ends with $480,085 bid — buyer walked away with 8,064 Intel Xeon Broadwell CPUs, 313TB DDR4-2400 ECC RAM, and some water leaks
Intel cpus and cores
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That's called hyperthreading for example an i7 has 4 cores but 8 threads and an i5 has 4 cores and 4 threads. The i7 can be faster in some ways. You can put it that way: the i5 is like 4 people eating with only one hand and the i7 is like 4 people eating with 2 hands.
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Basically you have physical and logical cores. So let's say you have an i7 with 4 cores. Each of those cores has the ability to perform 2 tasks simultaneously. So you end up having 4 processors and 4 logical processors, making it seem like an 8 core CPU.
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Don't forget you also can't overclock any cpu. Intel CPUs that have the unlocked multiplier are designated with a "K."
IE: i7-7700K
There was once "core unlocking" on AMD Phenom, I think. Intel has never had that.
An Intel unlocked CPU is marked with a "k" at the end - 4790K. The only unlocked piece in these CPU's is the multiplier.
What you were saying about the hidden cores, that's called "Hyperthreading", the CPU's core is split in two, so it can do more tasks at the same time. AMD's ZEN will also have this ability on some of their CPU's, I think it's called "Simultaneous Multithreading".
An Intel unlocked CPU is marked with a "k" at the end - 4790K. The only unlocked piece in these CPU's is the multiplier.
What you were saying about the hidden cores, that's called "Hyperthreading", the CPU's core is split in two, so it can do more tasks at the same time. AMD's ZEN will also have this ability on some of their CPU's, I think it's called "Simultaneous Multithreading".
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2133 hz or mhz? 2133 MHz is a great speed for RAM. What's more important is how much RAM you have. 8GB has sort of become the minimum standard for systems with a GPU, but If you have 16Gb of RAM you're very safe from experiencing any sort of bottleneck with that GPU.
Yes the core unlocking that you are talking about is an 4 core CPU that had one defective core. This started from the Phenom X3 which AMD marketed as a 3 core since they disabled the defective core. Some people found a way to reenable this core.
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