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    News - Fancy an extra core on your AMD Phenom II X3 processor?

    We all know it's an X4 in disguise, but some folks in Korea have managed to unlock that functional forth core.
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    Re: News - Fancy an extra core on your AMD Phenom II X3 processor?

    If demand for X3s is great enough and yields are good enough, then it could be the case that four perfectly good cores end up in an X3 product, so if there is a way to activate the fourth core (and, importantly, verify that it's error free) then that's a big win.

    Does the pinout of the processors give away anything. E.g. could shorting a pin to ground or pulling it up result in turning the 'dead' core back on?
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    Re: News - Fancy an extra core on your AMD Phenom II X3 processor?

    I was playing with this a week or so ago, an exciting discovery at the time. My 4th core is a bit of a dud but I can make windows @3.8GHz x4

    http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=510443

    http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...php?t=17977875

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