Can you unlock the extra L2 Cache on a Newcastle?

[scaryclownsarefun]

I was just wondering if AMD uses the same dissable the extra cache technique that ATI uses to make lower end GPU's with the same core but with some pipelines dissabled.

 

[imported_whatever]

some of the early "newcastle" core cpus were really just clawhammers that failed, but any new ones will really only have 512k of cache. btw, i dont know if there is any way to let the clawhammer-based "newcastles"

 

[charloscarlies]

Can you unlock the extra L2 Cache on a Newcastle?

No.

 

[scaryclownsarefun]

that sucks, what about the sempron chips? those only have 256K of cache, could they have some unlocked cache? the 3100 uses the paris core, but i doubt that that is really anything but a failed newcastle.... any info on that?

 

[Antoneo]

nm