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Solve : What is Quad-Core Unlocked?? |
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Answer» YES, I want to know. This is the first item I EVER saw this term. Please educate me. I am willing to learn. Here is just one of many pages that blow me away. http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1313/1/ What does this mean? Quote This is the first item I ever saw this term. It's not one, but TWO terms which are applied to CPUs. "Quad Core" means "having four cores". If a CPU is "unlocked" that means that it is possible to change the "multiplier", the ratio of the CPU CLOCK to the Front Side Bus frequency. CPU locking means permanently setting a CPU's clock multiplier at the time of manufacture. This prevents overclocking by changing the multiplier. AMD CPU models are usually unlocked in early editions and locked in later editions, but nearly all Intel CPUs are locked. I believe AMD Black Editions and Intel Extreme Editions are unlocked cpus. That article from a year ago was commenting on the then newly introduced unlocked Intel four-core processors. |
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