http://www.maximumpc.com/article/hom...pu_performance

Customers who purchase a desktop computer featuring the Pentium G6951 processor will be given the option to buy a $50 scratch coupon allowing them to unlock additional threads and L3 cache on the chip. To be clear this is very different from “binning” where a CPU gets reclassified after testing. The G6951 is intentionally being sold with locked potential the consumer has the option to buy after the fact. Hardware.info got its hands on an early sample of the chip, and has confirmed that in addition to Hyper-Threading, users are able to unlock a full 1MB of L3 cache.
Intel should focus more on not making garbage CPUs liike the Pentium G that are lower on the pole than the Core i3. Maybe then they could lower their prices and really compete with AMD for the budget gaming market.