Upgradeable Intel Sandy Bridge Processor
Toward the end of last summer, Intel has begun testing a program with a Pentium G6951 is designed to see how consumers respond to the CPU is upgradeable. And over time, the company that is preparing the release of both of these, now seems to have had success with a pilot program that this time based on Sandy Bridge architecture.
G6951 Pentium ranks which have been marketed on a small number of existing systems, such as Gateway SX2841, and consumers have the option to upgrade the CPU without doing a physical change, but only by purchasing a special card. Once the code on the card validated by Intel server, customers were given a new processor firmware is turned back on some of its features are disabled by the producers concerned.
In the case of the Pentium G6951, the process is open support for Hyper-Threading as well as some of Level 3 cache memory is disabled.
Based on findings by the publication of the document Intel CPU-World, is now revealed that the supplier of the Santa Clara chip giant has decided to take the same approach with the presence of G622 Pentium processor.
"The tools that identify external silicone string brand can also see a change: for example, upgrade the performance of an Intel Pentium processor changes G622 to G622 Intel Pentium processor with a large number of G622 (which is ready to upgrade) to G693 (after upgrade)".
So far, not yet known what kind of CPU features in the Pentium G622 which can be opened via the firmware. Besides the possibility of not only Intel's Sandy Bridge processor upgradeable are disclosed, and may be, the same treatment could also be applied to other Intel processors that have not been released as i3-2102, if seen by the naming scheme used for this CPU.
Pentium G622 is not listed in the database ARK Intel processor, but is expected to show the same specifications as G620 (dual processing cores clocked at 2.6GHz and 3MB L3 cache that's shared).