Hi,
According to this guy here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRbp-b2-D0g The Entusiast series were all planned to be xeons and that its just ones that fail to have 8 fully performing cores are changed so that only 6 are usable and are packed as the E series, can anyone shed light on this matter?
ackel006
ya this guy knows his shit i would trust him. also every cpu gets bind.
lets look at amd fx cpus for ease of explanations.
the fx 8350 is an 8 core cpu if you buy this cpu you should expect to see around 5ghz oc. the 8320 is the same as the 8350 but one or more cores are not preforming as well as it could to be a 8350. so the fx 8320 is a bind fx 8350chip and you can expect to see about 4.7ghz oc . going beyond that fx8000 is a 95w 8 core cpu and if one or 2 cores are not working the cpu is bind to a fx6300 (a six core) and if 3 or 4 cores are not working it became a fx 4300. and with all of this chips they laxer cut the bad cpu's.
with amd fx cpu's they all start out as 8 core's but because of defects in the silicone the cpu's are bind at different level's
also this is why we could unlock amd x3 cores to 4core cpu's and we could unlock 4 cores to 6cores. with the fx series amd laser cut he cpu's where they were disabling them at the hardware level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B14BiB-Bv3s