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Since I plan to get an Athlon II X2 or X3 in the future, and I've seen this mentioned, how would I go about unlocking the L3 cache (if they have one)?

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I responded in the other thread. Enable ACC in the bios. If there is no ACC option then it's not supported by the chipset or you need a bios update.

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Since I plan to get an Athlon II X2 or X3 in the future, and I've seen this mentioned, how would I go about unlocking the L3 cache (if they have one)?
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Also, hermit hit it spot on...all you should have to do is enable ACC in BIOS and if your processor is a deneb core, it will show L3. If not, you have a Propus core.
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Since I plan to get an Athlon II X2 or X3 in the future, and I've seen this mentioned, how would I go about unlocking the L3 cache (if they have one)?
There is no L3 except on this one, which is a locked AM2+ deneb (eg. Phenom II X4 940)

The Athlon II X2's are native duals
The Athlon II X3/X4's are quads with no L3 on die.
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There is no L3 except on this one, which is a locked AM2+ deneb (eg. Phenom II X4 940)

The Athlon II X2's are native duals
The Athlon II X3/X4's are quads with no L3 on die.
Are you sure about that?

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http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=237861
http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=10923

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I stand corrected

I was under the impression that they already used up all the spare denebs for it and are on real propus cores now.
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There's nothing to unlock on the Athlon II X2s.
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There's nothing to unlock on the Athlon II X2s.
But there is potentially on the Athlon II X3 and X4 and he did specify X3.
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There's nothing to unlock on the Athlon II X2s.
Because the guys at AMD are geniuses, if a core doesn't work, they take the CPU, disable the core, and sell it at the next lowest level, no wasted materials, and they make a profit.

X4 -> X3 -> X2. So an X2 could actually be an X4 that didn't perform up to par for whatever reason, yet could be fully functional.

EDIT: Wait, just read up on it. The X2's are native duals with 2 x 1MB L2 cache, instead of 3/4 x 512KB.

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Also, hermit hit it spot on...all you should have to do is enable ACC in BIOS and if your processor is a deneb core, it will show L3. If not, you have a Propus core.
Is there a way to cherry pick a Deneb, or is it totally random?

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Because the guys at AMD are geniuses, if a core doesn't work, they take the CPU, disable the core, and sell it at the next lowest level, no wasted materials, and they make a profit.

X4 -> X3 -> X2. So an X2 could actually be an X4 that didn't perform up to par for whatever reason, yet could be fully functional.

EDIT: Wait, just read up on it. The X2's are native duals with 2 x 1MB L2 cache, instead of 3/4 x 512KB.



Is there a way to cherry pick a Deneb, or is it totally random?
Well, if you can get enough batch numbers to see which batches are confirmed unlockers, then you could ask around different places and see if that have that specific batch. Other than that, it's pretty random.
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