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I recently discovered that CPU-Z is reporting my overclocked Athlon II X4 640 as "Athlon II X4 640T" and the die name as "Thuban" which should be for the Phenom II X6 right? I thought the 640 was a Propus core? And help on why this might be reporting as this would be helpful, thanks.

CPU-Z Valid link: http://valid.canardpc.com/u617ph
 
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I recently discovered that CPU-Z is reporting my overclocked Athlon II X4 640 as "Athlon II X4 640T" and the die name as "Thuban" which should be for the Phenom II X6 right? I thought the 640 was a Propus core? And help on why this might be reporting as this would be helpful, thanks.

CPU-Z Valid link: http://valid.canardpc.com/u617ph
I have two Thuban Athlon II X4's that unlocked two extra cores and the L3. Now they are 1405T's. They overclock great too. Both run fine at over 4 GHz.
 
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Yeah, after looking around a bit more, I found it is just a gimped Phenom II X6. There wasn't much on it, other than it is an OEM from HP, and it's pretty unusual to see one around.
The ones I have sure aren't gimped. The cores and L3 were disabled to meet demand for a cheap four core consumer cpu.



 
I had one of those a few years ago... motherboards could just unlock them. IIRC, AMD had simply chosen to gimp some of its Thuban CPUs down to X4s... I certainly never had any issues with it running as a hex core @ 4 GHz.
 
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Yeah, i'm running at 4.1Ghz fine right now
 
I just got another Thuban Athlon on eBay today. Alas this one had one bad core. Would not boot with the fifth core enabled. Still I unlocked it to a 5 core and the L3 was unlocked also. And its purring along at 4.0 Ghz.
 
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