I may be off base, so please excuse me if I am.
I thought I read somewhere that you could unlock those cores if you had
the right BIOS installed on your mobo...I didn't bother beyond that
since I have an Phenom X4 BE in this machine.
On 2/19/2010 3:34 PM, Stan Zaske wrote:
Well my new CPU came yesterday and it overclocks to 4 GHz stably with
1.4v which I don't consider excessive. However, it won't unlock the
other 2 cores so I expect there is a defect in 1 or more of the unused
cores. What is the collectives opinion on sending it back for a
replacement? Ethical or not? What would you do if you wanted a cheap
dually that you wanted to run as a quad? Thanks!
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