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Refalm:
It will be popular, the PC's they are going to be installed in are likely € 300 PC's from Tesco.

adiment:
Although I don't think they will benefit much from this idea other than pissing off end-users smart enough to know about it, I'm kinda surprised they never did this before.

This brings me back to old days of overclocking (or not so old 2005) where having a chip with an unlocked multiplier would allow you to get great performance (like Intel ES chips, AMD's FX was also unlocked then; no idea about them these days though). I think multi's are locked on everything these days but I'm probably wrong.

Aloone_Jonez:
If a crack becomes available I might be tempted to buy a PC with a crippled CPU, simply because it's a way of getting better hardware vor less.

reactosguy:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez on 23 September 2010, 08:40 ---If a crack becomes available I might be tempted to buy a PC with a crippled CPU, simply because it's a way of getting better hardware vor less.

--- End quote ---

Yeah, and said CPU could break in a few months. So much for spending less.

Aloone_Jonez:
Yes, I suppose you're right and hacking it would probably invalidate the warranty.

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