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It's kind of odd AMD is using odd numbers for their core counts. They should call it triplets or triad.

My sources, a motherboard manufacturer in a third world country have informed me that AMD is currently considering two names for the tri-core line:

Faileron
Defecteron

What, no oopseron?

I actually liked that name

Hey TC, I thought you are an AMD enthusiast?

How about:

Three-are-on
Phenom 0.75X4
Hopeitcatcheson
Phenom X2+1
Tripleron
Barcelo (the last fourth was disabled)
3 Core Quad (might have to fight with Intel over that)
Phenom X4 Super Energy Efficient Edition
Orion (Orion's belt has three stars and the 10h cores are all named after stars)
Triple Play

If all was equal I would go with the underdog. My system has an Opteron 175. Before that I had a Athlon X2 3200+. Before that I had an Athlon XP 2800+ (Barton).

I'm a fanboy of reality.

I have to disagree sir. Since K8, AMD's bread and butter has been servers. If the people at AMD thought tricore was a viable solution, you know they would have it out in Barcelona flavors. I'm not saying their stupid, evil, incompetent or whatever for bringing this line of processors out. All I'm saying is lets not make out to be more than it is. They're trying to do the best they can with what they have in their current situation.

I thought Intel already did something like this by binning C2D with a failed core as Solo?

It would seem a logical move for Intel to make, however the average fanboy will not permit such a thing to have ever occurred.

<smile>

It really does not matter if it looks like one, waddles and quacks, it is only a duck if enough people agree.