Will the Phenom II 545 unlock as well?

[rdawise]

I know that people have been having success unlocking the 550 into a quad, but has anyone tried the 545? Has anyone tried to overclock? Right now it's about $20 cheaper than the 550, which I could put somewhere else...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103694

 

[xtc28]

^^Probably something like that!!!!

 

[videl]

People asked AMD about unlocking (when they first figured it out) and they claimed that they didn't know much about it...in fact they said it's good that some people were able to unlock because it attracts customers for AMD...but secretly they told motherboard manufacturers to take off the unlock option...
As the phenom II X2 550 came out motherboards started having that feature again, and AMD doesn't seem to be doing anything about it...

 

[AsAnAtheist]

They probably do what every other product manufacturer does, keep them for parts for repairing other processors. Even though the wafer itself may have failed, it's memory controllers, or other parts may still work.

 

[xtc28]

memory controllers are on the die/chip itself there is no using it to FIX another chip. Recently I have come into the knowledge that intel actually uses the failed chips to create sub par processor lines known as pentium series and all lower models of procs.