AMD Toliman and the cores

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Is Toliman an X4 with a defective core?

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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Is Toliman an X4 with a defective core?

That is the theory. No official word from AMD on that.

Another potential benefit Brookwood points to is production efficiency. If AMD finds it is having many of its quad-core Opteron processors coming off the production line with only three of the four cores fully functioning, then it can still market those as tri-core instead of chucking them into the trash can.

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)?

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/246319-28-toliman

Which witch is which? Which core: very unlikely to matter, will all be under the IHS, quad core cooling for three cores....