Is the Athlon II x2 on par with the Phenom II x2?
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The Phenom II X2 is better, has 512kb of L2 each core and 6mb of L3. Plus there is a (chance) you can unlock the other two cores. Quad core with two cores disabled.
The Athlon II X2 has 1mb of L2 on each core but no L3 cache. Does not have the other two cores to try to unlock. Straight up dual core.
The Athlon II X2 has 1mb of L2 on each core but no L3 cache. Does not have the other two cores to try to unlock. Straight up dual core.
Drastik
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and how do you unlock these cores?
Not all boards will. If the board has atleast a 710 and above southbridge. You enable ACC then set it to Auto. On a Gigabyte you set ACC to Hybird, then to Auto.
Doesn't have to be auto. I have mine set to All Cores.
Whats the rest of your setup??? Board/ram/PSU/GPU....etc, and what do you do with it? Game? Video rendering?
Auto or All, either one will work.
Umm, thanks captain obvious?
You can also set it to per core as well (feel free to repeat that too).
Drastik
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gigabyte mb, kingston hyperx 1066, 460 coolmaster psu, hd 4580 512mb gfx
and i will use it for gaming/media
bomberboysk
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What mobo(Model)?
Whats this, a sign of insecurity or the longing to be someone?
Longing - a strong feeling of wanting something one is unlikely ever to have.
Stupidity - A stupid act, remark, or idea.
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Drastik
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Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 770 Socket AM2+
And who am I trying to be?
Well there's two versions of that board. Do you have the rev1.0 or rev2.0 version? The 2.0 has the SB710 south bridge, the 1.0 has the sb700 which doesn't support ACC. Just look in the book you got with it and it should say what south bridge you have.
Dont really know or care, but it sounds like it will be a long time anyway. Insecurity can manifest itself in many ways.
Drastik
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its the rev2.0
Well then you are good to go! Get the Phenom II 550 for sure! A chance to unlock and make it a quad, or at the very least you'll have the most powerful AMD dual core.
Well, it depends if the cores are stable. AMD sometimes makes dual cores out of faulty quad cores, so 1 or 2 of the cores are defective. However, if the dual core is selling enough, AMD won't have enough defective core quad's to keep things rolling so they deactivate 2 of the cores even though they are good.
So it's a toss-up whether or not you'll get a CPU with all 4 cores good, but I think your chances are very good. From what I've seen, about 60-70% of Phenom II 550's can unlock stable and also the 720 triple core has an even higher percentage of success rate for making it a quad.
Oh, one other thing. You have to have the correct Bios flashed in there, some of the newer bios' will not allow unlocking of the cores.
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