>>Thank you for the suggestion. I didn't think that that would charge extra just for a bigger box :)
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>Pricing can be misleading: some Intel processors are from the same assembly line, but they spend additional effort making those CPUs draw less energy (by destroying some cores...) and then charge you less than for the energy guzzling CPU with more cores ;-))

My previous Athlon was advertised and sold as 3 core... which of course nobody makes, it's a 4 core with one disabled. Probably some gamer from Nashville was complaining on overheating when overclocked, so they sold them like this. And of course the motherboard recognized this and offered to enable the 4th core. At my own risk, of course. Since I don't overclock, nothing bad ever happened.