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Old 4th May 2009
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Originally Posted by vermaden View Post
With new 45nm AMD's tripple core Phenom X3 you can enable the 4th core using ACC (SB750 south bridge):
http://techpowerup.com/86100/Phenom_...om_II_X4?.html
Also latest 65nm Athlon X2 can be upgraded to quad core using the same method:
http://bios.techpowerup.com/92330/At...Quad-Core.html
The X3 CPU's are X4 CPU's where a (small) defect was found in one of the cores, this core is disabled and the CPU is sold as an X3.
So yes, you can re-enable the fourth core, but if you have even the slightest care about stability, you will leave the fourth core disabled.
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