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Missing pins on Durons.. legit? or hoax

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just want to know if anyone has actually gotten a duron with missing pins.. i wanna order one from pricewatch but now im all paranoid i'll get a missing pin duron :/

 
So far it's a total hoax. All 'pictures' have been fakes.

I really doubt AMD is going to totally kill off all overclocking market by removing the pins. They may be losing money to us because most of us buy Duron 600s instead of 750s and OC them to 900 (rest of us buy 1GHz and OC them to 1.2). But that's nothing compared to the money they'd lose to totally cutting of the OC comunity.
 
Hoax! That site had many of us convinced that it was happening and we started warning people about it. Well, so far I haven't heard one person having a pinless Duron, but I keep hearing of awesome overclocks with them!
 
I was just at a computer show over the weekend and looked at a couple durons and tb. The right pins are still there. I don't know what week they were though.
 


<< But that's nothing compared to the money they'd lose to totally cutting of the OC comunity. >>



umm... unless i missed something, the OC community is like ~1% of the total market... if that, so they would not be loosing much. Couple that w/ the fact that they would be making money by virtually stopping remarking and in the end they would be making a profit by removing the pin. Dont fool yourself into believing that OC'ers actually influence the cpu makers...
 
even with remarking and overclocking AMD would end up loosing BIG TIME on the monetary side of things (and PR for that matter) if they removed the pins.

Think of how much money it would take to re-tool the dies and the amount of down time the production line would have. That is mega-bucks for a corporation to stop small time (1% in ragiepew's own words) overclockers.

I'm not sure about how many chips are remarked, but i'd venture to say its much less than 1% of the market considering how many remarked chips i've seen/heard of (I've only heard of 1, an old pentium 2, never seen one) and how many overclockers i know! (a lot!)
 
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