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I didn't see this posted yet. So, here is a link via Kitguru to their story:
http://www.kitguru.net/components/c...ll-e-de-lidded-interesting-discoveries-found/
Basically they damaged the chip but it shows two things: The heatspreader is soldered on, which is good news for us overclockers, and it damaged the CPU but that revealed 12 cores with 8 active.
Is this a cut-down Xeon? The soldering bit is definitely good news for overclocking.
http://www.kitguru.net/components/c...ll-e-de-lidded-interesting-discoveries-found/
Basically they damaged the chip but it shows two things: The heatspreader is soldered on, which is good news for us overclockers, and it damaged the CPU but that revealed 12 cores with 8 active.
Is this a cut-down Xeon? The soldering bit is definitely good news for overclocking.