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ASUS M4A89GTD Pro - A Core Unlocking 890GX for $140
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10th March 2010, 09:51
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| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
Posts: 79,010
 |  ASUS M4A89GTD Pro - A Core Unlocking 890GX for $140 While most of the boards within a certain price bracket follow a common component formula, ASUS and ASRock have managed to segregate themselves by breaking rank and offering hardware level core unlocking for budget dual/tri-core AMD processors. That means that you can buy a sub $100 CPU and unlock it at your leisure to enjoy 4 core number crunching. The feature itself is not new per se, it’s just that AMD decided to drop support for ACC on series 8 chipsets, leaving vendors to do things on their own accord. ASUS’ workaround is almost certain to have upset AMD, but we think they made the right choice - if moving to the 8-series chipsets meant giving up core unlocking, many enthusiasts wouldn't. http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3762
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