Unlock phenom 2 good bad or ugly

[Little red]

does it hurt the life span of a amd phenom II x2 555 to a B55

 

[wintermint]

Well unlocking the cores will definitely make it uses more power therefore higher temperature. Heat does chip away at the cpu's life. If you do plan to unlock and possibly overclock make sure you use good thermal compound and aftermarket heatsink. I recommend Hyper 212+ if you're finding a decent $30-ish one.

 

[Motopsychojdn]

Just unlocking it? Not perceptibly I would imagine, overclocking it heavily 24/7 might, but not if its a simple unlock,
@wintermint, I run my 2.9 triplecore as a 3.5 quad on standard hs and paste
Moto

 

[wintermint]

Go with what the addict says, he's more wise :3 [no sarcasm if suspected lol]

 

[henydiah]

unlock core if not balanced with a good cooler will decrease CPU lifetime too, because the heat generated over the previous.

 

[Motopsychojdn]

Good coolings always advisable hehe,
but this has been covered to death and back,
yes the extra heat/voltage will wear out the chip quicker Technically speaking,
but at such a small percentage its irrelevant, especially in enthusiast circles where you will most likely replace said components well before failure
its like dying a day before you would have because you jogged all your life, no real problem overall
Moto

 

[Little red]

i have it unlocked just to a quad (or a dual core on crack) the nb is at 1.2ghz and the nb voltage is at 1.3 the cpu's vcore is at 1.41ish and is on stockcooling and is super stable

 

[Motopsychojdn]

Cool, maybe run Prime95 or occt just to stress it and make sure its stable now, as your not overclocking though I reckon you should be ok as long as your cores are good ones

Moto

 

[Little red]

the only thing thats got me drooling is the temps but the only say 0.0 c

i dont know what program is right for this

 

[Motopsychojdn]

Aah, forgot to mention, unlocking messes up the temps on amd overdrive,
read it from bios or download hwmonitor
Moto

 

[Little red]

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