AMD 720 to 1090T?

what are your full specs?

yeah post specs, how much ram u got

4 gigs of DDR3, don't know why it's not showing up in my sig.

Check temps, drivers and overclock settings (if you have). A game that can use six core doesn't exist yet and get a six core CPU when BD is coming up and SB gives you better performance for a little more price isn't a good idea.

I'm not even sure my MB would support the Bulldozer lineup.

Sure will not, but you want buy a new CPU just to see that in few months a better option will comes out with similar price but better performance.

Just tried it. Wasn't stable enough to even load up windows 7.



It won't be similarly priced if I have to upgrade my MB along with the new chip.

if you can unlock it and its fully working. then drop the oc to 3.0ghz this should make the cpu stable. if that doesnt work then consider an upgrade to a quad. rather than a hexacore. as they are relatively weak on single core performance. in fact if you run it with turbo mode you will basicaly be back to a tri core as the hexacore disables 3 of the cores to run it.
but if you get a quad you will get better single core performance and you will be able to oc all 4 cores. something like a 955 will give you good bang for buck.

Might try that in a minute



I set it back to stock clocks on my second attempt, but nothing. Still locked up when it said "starting windows". I do like the prices of the 955's and they are easily OC'd to higher versions.

Ended up bricking my PC trying that one. Had to pull the MB battery to undo everything. I think it's safe to say that my 720 isn't going to unlock its disabled and mythical 4th core. I might just buy a 955 BE on payday and try my luck selling my 720.