Possible to Unlock Athlon?

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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.

Wisecracker

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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 .....
 

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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.
 

loneninja

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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.
 
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joefriday

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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.