Need Help Building PC

[allunderheaven]

Here are the screenshots of CPU-Z and System Properties.

I don't get the difference between the "Name" and "Specification" in CPU-Z.

 

[candle86]

ITs your bios not fully recognizing the chip update bios

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Name is what the processor was sold as while specification is the actual die designation. It's entirely likely that your X3 was originally a business line X4 that simply failed or got binned down to an X3.

@candle86: I dont think you understand quite how binning works. If there is high enough demand for X3's, AMD will take even fully working X4's and bin them down to X3's to meet the demand. They have a choice of selling less X4's and not selling as many X3's as they could have or losing a bit of profit on the X4's and selling enough X3's to meet demand (and more than make up for the deficit for selling less X4 dies as actual X4's)

 

[candle86]

Name is what the processor was sold as while specification is the actual die designation. It's entirely likely that your X3 was originally a business line X4 that simply failed or got binned down to an X3.

@candle86: I dont think you understand quite how binning works. If there is high enough demand for X3's, AMD will take even fully working X4's and bin them down to X3's to meet the demand. They have a choice of selling less X4's and not selling as many X3's as they could have or losing a bit of profit on the X4's and selling enough X3's to meet demand (and more than make up for the deficit for selling less X4 dies as actual X4's)

not likley as stated an X3 moved to X4 is over the 95W TDP meaing it was binned to X3 for not hitting the thermal limits, this is standard practice actully, and alot of dies simply wont do 95W TDP, the quads are the better pick, the X3's are the ones that could have been an X4 but arnt because they might put out 97 or 98W instead of 95W, so there binned diffrently. AMD isnt having a problem moving Athlon X4 parts, they sell like hot cakes, and wouldn't loose money on them in the first place lol.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Okay, in addition to your atrocious grammar you also have issues with reading comprehension. Notice I never said that AMD doesn't do what you say. In fact, thats where the majority of the X3 parts come from -- failed X4's. I am just telling you that in the semiconductor industry, that is not how it always works.

You also have no idea how well AMD's parts are moving. selling like hotcakes means nothing if they have a warehouse with 100,000 individual retail boxes sitting around.

 

[allunderheaven]

Name is what the processor was sold as while specification is the actual die designation. It's entirely likely that your X3 was originally a business line X4 that simply failed or got binned down to an X3.

Thanks Genocidicbunny.

Business CPU? Does that mean that I could probably unlock the last core, and that it would run stably?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

They have longer support and are generally more stable. It also looks like you've already done exactly that -- unlocked the core that is.

 

[allunderheaven]

Wha...!? I don't recall unlocking the last core. I don't even know how! CPU-Z says that I have 3 cores and 3 threads. Maybe I should just unlock it then...hmmm

 

[Genocidicbunny]

You need to go into BIOS on your motherboard, find the Advanced Clock Calibration feature and set it to auto.

If your system refuses to boot, you're gonna need to go into BIOS and turn off the feature. In that case, you have a quad that really failed a check on one of the cores and there's really nothing you can do but run it as a X3, like you bought it.