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Re:Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can al... by colanderman on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @12:44PM (#5820520)
Well, you can, it's called the Xeon 1285v3 (3.6 GHz w/ TSX) and it costs $662 (almost twice as much as the 4770K).
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Re:Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can al... by adlpz on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @12:52PM (#5820586)
That would explain it. Do those Xeons have the same instruction set as the new i7s?
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Re:Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can al... by colanderman on Friday June 07, 2013 @01:50PM (#5840408)
Yep. They're Haswells.
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