Looking at some AMD Stuff...

The 720s fourth cores are all locked, many are locked because the fourth core does not function, which allows amd to sell the other three cores as a perfectly good processor. While it is possible to unlock the fourth core, the fourth core is not guaranteed to function, nor is it even guaranteed to unlock. I would got for the Phenom II 940 or wait a little bit for the Phenom II 945 (AM3, DDR3) or even the 990 (3.5ghz at stock!). Check out this list of upcoming phenom II's, if nothing else, its very interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...icroprocessors

Yes that is a good motherboard, pretty much any 790 chipset will oc very well with the phenom II's. If you are a getting a PhII, any 790gx or 790fx will do, unless it has horrible newegg ratings or something. Although i would reccomend biostar, as they come with an excellent overclocking tool in the bios.

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When are the Phenom II 945's coming out?

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Even if the 710/720 doesnt unlock stable its still a great gaming CPU. For the price you really cant beat it. Especially right now with the combo deals newegg has going on.

Seems like the majority of things im reading about the 7x0 is that people are successfully unlocking them very often, though stability is hit and miss.

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I went right ahead and bought a combo, what you see in my sig rig is my new system.

I'd rather not chance it, my luck I'd get a botched chip or something, I already have bad enough luck with getting good batch numbers

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Yeah I hope it's a decent upgrade from a 4ghz e8400.