WHY IS IT SO HARD SKIPPING BACCARAT ' S SPECIAL ? !? <| sep |> In the last shot , what fans are those on your top rad ? <| sep |> Two thing about that . First of all , you got me a bit wrong here . Intel has the functions disabled removed depending on the CPU like vt , AVX , HT , Turbo AMD never did that on purpose . With the cores you are partially right the x 2 and x 3 that came later were x 4 CPU ' s with defective cores . Better to sell them then throwing them away . You could also try to enable the disabled core when AMD ' s faulty cores were not enough to fulfill the demand . If you were lucky , it worked , if not , the PC came unstable or AMD had the core cut down in hardware . But that ' s not a reduction like Intel does . AMD didn ' t remove functionality , they just cut the cores down and sold it as a new product for a cheaper price . So you still had the same functions like the X 4 with SSE and stuff , but only 2 cores .