Turn Your AMD Phenom 2 Three Core CPU into a Quad Core CPU

It is all the rage this week so far. Making a Phenom II Tri-Core into a Quad-Core. It does sound pretty cool, but I think we are going to see a huge amount of people upset that the fourth core is bad. 

Apparently customers that own an AMD Phenom II processor can turn the 3 cores into 4 cores, or make it a quad core without any hardware modifications. According to the source, it requires a Biostar motherboard but some other motherboard's might have the same feature located in the BIOS. Be warned though, usually when AMD or Intel ships a CPU with one of the cores disabled, it's because they probably had issues with running the extra core on that specific CPU. It could be due to heating, performance, or some other issue.

I will be honest though Ninjalane would love to give this a try.

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