AMD Athlon x3 450 unlock?

[grapez]

Hello.

okay, i have pulled a x3 450 cpu out of a spare computer out of the house, and i unlocked it. When opening cpu-z, or the windows dxdiag, it lists it as a amd phenom x4 B50 cpu. but it still has 3 cores. what did i do wrong?

 

[rolli59]

That is strange it should be 4 cores if listed as X4.

 

[grapez]

yeah anyone know whats wrong?

 

[teh_gerbil]

When you say it only says 3x core, where? Like windows task manager?

 

[aicom]

Sometimes Windows doesn't detect new physical cores without a reinstall. What does the BIOS show?

 

[grapez]

it shows in CPU-Z, and DXDIAG. it shows amd phenom x4 b50 cpu.

 

[aicom]

I'm fairly sure it's a Windows issue then. Try a reinstall (or in-place upgrade) and see if that fixes it.

 

[grapez]

okay, thank you for the suggestion. BRB Gonna reformat pc.

 

[zooted]

Did it unlock l3 cache?

 

[grapez]

Did it unlock l3 cache?

 

[zooted]

Is this after the reformat? Pretty sweet that you unlocked the l3 cache. How many threads does it show in task manager?

 

[grapez]

oh, i did not reformat yet. i did? so that means it has to be a quad? it shows 3 threads. ill try reformatting now.

 

[grapez]

Is this after the reformat? Pretty sweet that you unlocked the l3 cache. How many threads does it show in task manager?

nope, did not work. i think i found the problem though.. in the bios setting, i have a asus board btw, under advanced clock calibration, the 4th core is set to off o_o but whenever i put it on, it tells me "unleashing mode failed." how could this happen when i unlocked the l3 cache?

 

[zooted]

Sometimes that happens. What you have is a denab die that had a core defective. In order to make money off the silicon they locked the core and sold it as an athlon x3. At least you have the l3 cache which will help performance some.

 

[grapez]

Sometimes that happens. What you have is a denab die that had a core defective. In order to make money off the silicon they locked the core and sold it as an athlon x3. At least you have the l3 cache which will help performance some.

so i have a phenom x3? thanks.

 

[grapez]

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[Mousemonkey]

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