"Hold onto your hyperthreaded horses, because this is liable to whip up an angry mob -- Intel's asking customers to pay extra if they want the full power of their store-bought silicon. An eagle-eyed Engadget reader was surfing the Best Buy shelves when he noticed this $50 card -- and sure enough, Intel websites confirm -- that lets you download software to unlock extra threads and cache on the new Pentium G6951 processor. Hardware.info got their hands on an early sample of the chip and discovered it's actually a full 1MB of L3 cache that's enabled plus HyperThreading support, which translates to a modest but noticeable upgrade.
This isn't exactly an unprecedented move, as chip companies routinely sell hardware-locked chips all the time in a process known as binning, but there they have a simpler excuse -- binned chips are typically sold with cores or cache locked because that part of their silicon turned out defective after printing.
This new idea is more akin to video games that let you "download" extra weapons and features, when those features were on the disc all along. Still, it's an intriguing business model, and before you unleash your rage in comments, you should know that Intel's just testing it out on this low-end processor in a few select markets for now." Wired.com
WTF is this BULLSHIT?!?!
I think my next processor might just be an AMD, purely because of this. CUNTS.
lifehack guy supports your blog..
ReplyDeleteI wonder how hard it would be to make a hack/patch that pretty much does the same thing??
ReplyDeleteHaha, wow. This is absolutely ridiculous. What could even be the reasoning for something like this? It doesn't benefit the consumer at all, it's purely a profit-driven exploit.
ReplyDeletewow thats kinda stupid. I bet they figure Microsoft can get tards to pay for xbox live, something that should be free, why not charge people for something they don't understand. :/
ReplyDeletePeople are going to pay for it, so they're doing it. That's what happens. =P
ReplyDeleteWell for Xbox Live they got servers and something and there is some upkeep cost to that. Its like Blizzard charging $15 a month for Warcraft. You're paying for a service with XBL and WoW. When I buy a computer, I expect to use it to its maximum potential and not have to buy something else just to let me use its full power. It's like buying a blender then when you bring it hope you got to shell out an additional $10 for a power cord since it isn't included, even though the box says absolutely nothing about it.
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lol who would buy that
ReplyDeleteSo now my processor is DRM'd? See, I think the problem with this is that their taking advantage of people who don't know anything about computers.
ReplyDeleteEveryone wants a faster computer, so I can see a lot of people falling for this, thinking it's magic.
jesus i was having a rocket in my room all this time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletewell ofc they are people are dumb enough to pay for it
ReplyDeletewhat i just lost all respect for intel
ReplyDeleteThat is buillshit. Why bother doing that?
ReplyDeletewtf Oo
ReplyDeleteThats complete and utter bullshit, I can't believe they're doing this.
ReplyDeletewow more greed from big companies what a surprise!
ReplyDeleteits bs but we cant do much about it
ReplyDeleteShowing my DAILY support,I REALLY need yours aswell!!
ReplyDeleteIts actually pretty interesting to say the least lol
ReplyDeletewow i agree, wtf is this!?!
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