I plan on getting the 146 model (CAB2E stepping) for the PC I'm building, but I havn't seen any one using one here. Is it worth getting?
I suppose i'l go for a 3500+ venice now then.
I thought the Opteron compares to the Xeon processers also, and sempron was AMD's equivalent to Intel's Celeron
That's if you can still find a San Diego.
The San Diego models, 3700+ and 4000+, were based on the E4 processor stepping. The E4 stepping was also used in the FX55, FX57, X2 3800+, X2 4200+, and X2 4600+ CPU's, according to a Tom's Hardware chart I have.
I recently assisted a chap who bought a 3700+ and it turned out to be a Toledo cored X2 cpu (E6 cpu stepping) with a disabled core, leaving one core running as a 3700+. This seems to be a common trend among a few single core CPU's now.
It is known that the E6 stepping tends to overheat much faster than the E4 stepping in an overclocked environment.
It sounds to me like a screw job... I dont think AMD is distributing CPU's as a San Diego with a Toledo core. I do believe that would be illegal.
under what law?
In the United States there are laws in place that specify product misrepresentation is illegal and over a certain dollar amount can be considered a felony or in a high dollar amount, a federal offense.
I am not an attorney or close to it however if I purchase a product based on its technical description which is authorized by the manufacture, I better get for my money what that description specifies.
If you purchased a Mercedes from the dealer and that dealr told you the car was 100% Mercedes, and after the sale you found out it had a Fiat engine in it, would it be legal?
NO way
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