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Jason Weisberger <jbdubbs@×××××.com> writes: |
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> On Jan 17, 2011 4:15 PM, "Volker Armin Hemmann" <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Monday 17 January 2011 15:13:54 Jason Weisberger wrote: |
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>>> The update killed your free core :) |
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>> a 'free core' that is probably broken in mysterious and hard to find but |
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>> nonetheless very dangerous ways. Thanks. |
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> The word "probably" implies that you have no idea what the statistics were |
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> on getting a perfectly good core were or why they disabled entire batches of |
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> cores based on an error from one. |
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I think you should worry more about the fact AMD disables known-good |
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cores due to excessive demand for lower-core versions. |
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If you can somehow manage to find out if the disabled core is good or |
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not (keeping in mind that "testing may convincingly demonstrate the |
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presence of bugs, but can never demonstrate their absence." (EWD1036) - |
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it's more or less like when you use memtest), then you have a good |
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heuristic on whether or not to enable that core. Now I doubt I'd do it |
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blindly - YMMV, of course. |
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Also, |
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. |
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Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? |
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A: Top-posting. |
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Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? |
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Nuno J. Silva |
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gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg |