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You should be familiar with the fact that the playstation 3 has 7 enabled SPEs (one is dedicated to isolation) and 1 disabled SPE to increase the yield effectiveness during manufacturing.
You should be familiar with the fact that the playstation 3 has 7 enabled SPEs (one is dedicated to isolation) and 1 disabled SPE to increase the yield effectiveness during manufacturing.


Upon startup, the syscon firmware will read the Syscon's EEPROM value located at 0x48C30 (You can read/write to that offset through the Update Manager) and will set the cell config ring accordingly. (it gets sent by Syscon through the SPI bus)
Upon startup, the syscon firmware will read the Syscon's EEPROM value located at 0x48C30 (You can read/write to that offset through the Update Manager) and will set the cell config ring accordingly.


That value is initially set to 0x06 on all consumer consoles which means 7 SPEs are actually enabled (The count starts at SPE0). Incrementing it will unlock the extra SPE.
That value is initially set to 0x06 on all consumer consoles which means 7 SPEs are actually enabled (The count starts at SPE0). Incrementing it will unlock the extra SPE.
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