Ok everyone! I realize this may not be the right place to post this...
But...... this seemed the most appropriate place to post.
So I have a 550 Black Edition mounted on a MA770T-UD3P with flashed bios F3c. I have 4 GB of good RAM, verified using the processor as a straight dual core.
My new build works fine... as a dual core. But everytime I try to unlock the cores my W7 freezes at Windows startup screen.
I realize it's a crapshoot on getting a processor that will unlock the cores.
well dude, tough luck on these lol, I know if i see a 0922APMW I will pick that sucker up right away, but they seems to be rare atm lol, they are one of the older batches that had high unlock percentages.
well it overclocks well.... got it at 3.82 and stable. not a bad little bugger actually. I know the Athlon II x2 250 is suposed to OC better and it is cheaper.... but resale on my 550 then buy a new CPU now wouldn't make any sense. at 3.82 Ghz it does everything I ask of it now and screams through it.
I will hang onto it until the x4 965 comes down to $160 or so. ~6 months I think.
or so they say, I have no clue how good a dual core with HT is going to unthron a true quad core, but the true quads (with or w/o HT) on 1156 will be a pita for AMD...
and if they have 80 dollar overclockable mobos out there with it, then AMD is bound to drop prices or else they cannot compete.