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The Toliman is a X4 with a defective core. Right?

If so.. Will there be any differences regarding general performance depending witch core is not working (I mean the position of the core on the die)?
 

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There's also the possibility that one of the cores is just disabled, for the sake of increasing clock speed or price placement. I should assume that the core that is disabled won't matter.
 

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That is what I was thinking. I think the tri-core option might add a little spice into the benchmark fray! Who knows, maybe a tri-core will preform better on some games/apps than a 2 or 4 core.. We might be able to overclock a little more than 4 core but not as much as 2 core for a sweet spot in the middle......



 


No, it will be a defective native quad-core.

A native tri-core would be that way be design.



Tri-pod
Triple Cripple


Native Quad Core @65nm = FAIL


It's November, do you know where your Phenoms are?
 

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Well, the official launch isn't until Nov 19th. They have the choice of three different ways of creating Tolliman.
1) 1 core has defects
2) 1 core won't clock as high
3) 3 cores should clock higher than 4