Athlon X2 7750 BE Unlocked to Quad-Core

Regeneration · Posted by Regeneration on April 26th, 2009, 04:13 PM

Earlier this year, a Korean source had pointed out an easy method to enable a fourth core on the Phenom II X3. This was made possible by the way AMD has been designing its triple-core and dual-core processors based on the K10 "Stars" architecture: by disabling one or two cores on the quad-core die. "Sloppy" BIOS coding lead to the Phenom II X3 anomaly. It looks like a somewhat similar mod enables not one, but two cores on the sub-$100 Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition. A Korean technology website GiggleHD.com has reported a successful unlock of two cores.

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**Posted by SpectatorX on April 26th, 2009, 05:00 PM**

My bad was taking motherboard with 780g chipset.... 790s owns! ;-)