Possible to Unlock Athlon?

[purple stank]

I have a mobo that is capable of unlocking cores.Is it possible to unlock Athlon cores or is that only a Phenom thing?

 

[Wisecracker]

Single-core Sempys can unlock into dual-core AthlonIIs.

Some triple-core Rana chips can unlock to Propus quad-cores.

From time-to-time you may find a chip which will unlock L3 cache.

Some early Propus quads would unlock into PhenomIIs .....

 

[purple stank]

So it is possible to unlock athlon ii x2's and x3's ?

I don't know much about Athlons as Phenoms are my only choice.I thought it was just exclusive to them because they are BE.But i guess BE is just an unlocked multiplier.

 

[HighPies]

its possible, just give it a go, if it doesnt post then it cant.

 

[purple stank]

Another question...
If you do manage to unlock extra cores is it permeant within the chip or is only accesiable thru the motherboard you used to unlock it?

 

[loneninja]

The motherboard is what unlocks the cores, and it'll go away as soon as your change settings in the BIOS.

Athlon II X2 can't unlock cores, it's a native dual core, and has more L2 cache per core than any other AMD processor currently.

 

[joefriday]

I have a mobo that is capable of unlocking cores.Is it possible to unlock Athlon cores or is that only a Phenom thing?

Depends on the athlon in question. x3 ya, x2 no (but some weird oems yes, and the short lived x2 5000 or 5200 i forget its exact number, it too is unlockable,but that's it. x2s for the most part are not unlockable at all.

 

[shrkbay]

what Athlon do you have? Even if you have the one which usually unlocks cores you might have problems with it later or it just won't unlock it

 

[purple stank]

Thanks everyone for your help.

 

[purple stank]

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