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Default Unlocking Athlon II X3 to Phenom II X4


I just upgraded my system to Athlon II X3 440 with Asus M4N98TD EVO MoBo. My system was able to boot fine the very first time and I was able to unlock 4th core of my Proc. But instead of Athlon II X4 (as expected) the processor shows as Phenom II X4 B40. Is it OK? I thought Phenoms were Athlons with L3 cache enabled.
Also is there any method to revert back to Athlon II X3 from here? Will simple BIOS reset do the job?
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Default Re: Unlocking Athlon II X3 to Phenom II X4

Did you use Cpu-Z to check it out??
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Default Re: Unlocking Athlon II X3 to Phenom II X4

CPU-Z too shows processor as Phenom II X4 B40. L3 cache is not available though.
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Default Re: Unlocking Athlon II X3 to Phenom II X4

^^ is it stable as Phenom II X4 B40 - if so then why reverse it as you are getting the power of one additional processing core.

if you still want to reverse it back to x3 - yes a simple bios reset should do it.

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