AMD and their old Phenom II binning process.

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MushBrain

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Some people will tell you the dual core and triple core versions were just quad core Phenom II's that failed quality testing or had faults, then how did i get such a damn good dual core Phenom II x2 555 BE?

Unlocks stable on 790FX-GD70 and even sips voltage for a high OC?

1.47v @ 4.3ghz & 2600mhz NB + 1600mhz DDR3 running at 1708mhz.

What the heck could have been wrong with this chip?
 
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A huge no of Phenom x2 & x3s didn't have defective cores as the manufacturing got better fewer cores failed but demand for the cheaper chips stayed the same so they just locked cores on perfect CPUs to supply demand for x2 & x3s.
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just because one or two of the cores failed their quality testing that doesn't automatically mean every core is terrible. you might just have two incredible cores and the other two cores failed their quality.
 
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Well it's certainly an oddity as it clocks higher than most legit full fledged Quad core Phenom II's, they all get to a 4ghz wall, mine did too but all i had to do was tune my North Bridge.

 
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Here it is at 2800mhz North Bridge (not stable above 4ghz) and even lower voltae at 1.45v 4.02ghz.

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spjLo4Gh618"][/video]

PCSX2 running SSE2 GSDX GT3 flawless with OBS encoding on the CPU.

GTX 580 at stock clocks (EVGA FTW clocks)

Records gameplay with not much of a hit to the CPU at all.

This is very CPU limited.. still above 150FPS.

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8QsV9Fv5to"][/video]

And GTA V with GTX 580 at stock clocks.

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fws6OQsEhwc"][/video]


PC was built in 2009, the GPU was purchased recently after my XFX 7770 broke for 55 GBP.




 
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A huge no of Phenom x2 & x3s didn't have defective cores as the manufacturing got better fewer cores failed but demand for the cheaper chips stayed the same so they just locked cores on perfect CPUs to supply demand for x2 & x3s.
 
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