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Originally Posted by ivanjt
There was the fanfare not so long ago when someone found that AMD were selling 4 core chips as 3 core processors - a way of activating that odd core was found and the groupies were ecstatic until programs didn't run quite as they should. That sort of thing is OK for games where the odd glitch doesn't matter but if you want to do any serious work read that which is on the label and stick to it.
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I actually use one of those tri-cores, and have the mobo that can enable the last one, though I haven't done it yet, as the difference between three and four cores in non-multithreaded applications(which makes up ~90% of the ones I use) is essentially nothing.
And as kennyminot said, 200MHz extra isn't going to change much of anything, its the GPU that's the bottleneck here.