So I still believe is not the same thing compared to what Intel dose.īut at this point I'm getting rather intrigued by your firm belief that CPU failure is not unusual since I have never came across one and never heard of a concrete case either ( obviously excluding OC failures). A complete waste would have been if they only relied on defective chips for their lower end product stack.
Think about it, Ryzen's 8 core variant will not be their best selling chip, those spots will go for the 4/6 core variants which come from the same die which in most cases is probably still 100% functional. Believe or not this is way more cost effective than having separate designs. The complexity of these chips has reached a point where a flawless design is impossible, OP's CPU might be bad, but I still think this "defect" isn't a hardware thing but rather a very rare low level software bug.Īlso the reason why AMD is following this practice with their binning process relies on them to manufacture a high core count chip just so that they can disable some of them even if they have 100% yields. I didn't say it isn't possible, but it's certainly very unusual. Never hearing of something does not mean it does not happen - the fact is with processors, it does happen. I was replying to your comment where you said you have never heard of a defective "core". So it is not that.ĭo you still have the G4400 you can put back in to see if the problem goes away? According to the QVLs, it is compatible with both boards. Other components are manufactured to the tightest tolerances, but those that can't meet those specs are sold as cheaper Pro - thanks for sharing this CPU is a G4560. Then they are tested and those that cannot run at those maximum speeds are packaged and sold as slower speed modules - at a lower cost, but still at a profit.
RAM modules are often manufactured to run at the fastest speed the manufacturing process and raw materials allow. This is even taught in industrial business classes. So rather than tossing the processor in the trash for a total loss, they just disable the defective core and sell it as a triple - as long as the remaining cores work fine.Īs I said before, this (dummying-down of specs) is a very common practice across all sorts of industries. That would be a HUGE waste of very precious and expensive die material - and a big loss of potential profits. AMD does not design and manufacture quad cores for the purpose of selling every one of them as triples. Not often, but it does.Īnd it is the same thing. Click to expand.I was replying to your comment where you said you have never heard of a defective "core".
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