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How to ensure your Phenom II x2 555 BE converts to a PERMANENT dual core processor!So I never overclocked, or did anything to fudge around with a processor. The most I've done is build a computer, so that's it.…I think I'll keep building a system as the most intensive thing I'll do that ISN'T software related, for now.So I've been toying with the idea of trying to unlock my Phenom II. It's a dual core, with 2 more locked cores, if you don't know - the 2 extra cores could be defective, or just for whatever reason they decide to troll us and give us a quad core that's acting more like a dual core.There's like a some 50-50 chance of getting a quad core. So I finally check up a tutorial real quick, and… I get a quad core! Yaaaayyyyy- wait a minute. *Opens up properties* O-One GHz? ONE?! WTF AMD. So I went from a 3.2GHz dual core to a 1GHz Quad… Eh….Restart, go to settings, try to see what might have messed up. Restarted, no change. Restart again.. Uh oh - the two new cores disappear. Mess around some more, PC won't start up. I short pins 2-3 on JBAT1 to reset the BIOS, and I finally get it running.After chatting with others, it looks as I've fried the 2 cores. I now have a permanent dual core processor! …Considering I paid for a dual core it's no big loss, but disappointing that I couldn't get a cheap quad core out of the deal.I can still play my minecraft and my TF2 and stuff so it's no big loss.…I find it funny that my new laptop is a core i5 though. Video card sucks though, and the LCD has a crapload of dithering.
I have an i7-3930k, which actually has 8 cores, but is limited to a hex. :(
Yea, my laptop's an i7 but runs at like 2.00Ghz, I don't really think the Intel Turbo Boost thingy it comes with really does much.
So I either fucked up and raped the two extra cores to oblivion, or it was a genuinely borked quad-core-turned-dual-core.
Entirely possible. Your symptoms sound similar to the pre-borked one I worked on, though we didn't get the underclock to 1GHz.
bork bork bork.
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