Newbie question on dual core/ are the dual core's one piece or two?

[mattburk]

How do dual core cpu's connect to the motherboard. Is the dual core cpu something that is manufactured as one piece, or do you use an adapter to hook the two together?

I want to know if I buy a cpu today, can I buy another cpu later to make it dual core?

I found the answer. I did a google search.

Thanks

 

[NokiaDude]

one piece. physically, it'll look like any other S939 AMD64 CPU. But underneath the heatspreader you'd notice the core was almost 2x as big.


an adapter, rofl.

 

[SomeDude22]

they are manufactored together since many are built in a fab i think they just leave two togehter

socket 939 mobo's can accept dual-cores when they come out with a bios upgrade

 

[xsilver]

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2388
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2389

read these two articles.... very informative.... re. your question.... its one die with 2 cores... separated by only nanometres ... so no adapter needed.... in fact on amd's dual core, only a bios update will be nessessary

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: mattburk
How do dual core cpu's connect to the motherboard. Is the dual core cpu something that is manufactured as one piece, or do you use an adapter to hook the two together?

I want to know if I buy a cpu today, can I buy another cpu later to make it dual core?
I found the answer. I did a google search.
Thanks

"Dual Core CPU - $xx.xxx" - "Some assembly required." 🙂

(Hey, if I happened to chip my Athlon core, can I legitimately sell it on ebay as a "dual-core" CPU? 😛 )

Edit for clarification: that was a joke, I don't actually have any cracked-core Athlons, nor would I list them like that if I did.

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
(Hey, if I happened to chip my Athlon core, can I legitimately sell it on ebay as a "dual-core" CPU? 😛 )

give it a shot 😀

it can't be worse than the other crap thats listed on there, lol