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The quad-core AMD Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition can be converted to four cores!

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not always the case with the statement in the title, but sometimes it is.

Korean GiggleHD.com reported on the unusual occurrence of turning a dual-core processor into a quad-core by turning on disabled cores. By switching the Advanced Clock Calibration option in the BIOS of the ASRock A790GX / 128M to the original dual-core $ 60 The AMD Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition continued to operate as a quad-core and its clock was raised to 3 GHz.

The quad-core AMD Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition can be converted to four cores!
ASRock A790GX / 128M

The intervention was also reacted by Windows XP in its own way, as the quad-core CPU was - mistakenly - recognized as AMD Phenom FX-7750, but the CPU-Z could not be confused.

The quad-core AMD Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition can be converted to four cores!
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No other specifics regarding the transformation have been leaked, in any case, it can be stated that in order to promote its products, AMD has recently been "accumulating error after error", since it was revealed not so long ago that some of its three-core processors were disabled fourth seed in fact, it's not faulty and can be activated in the right environment, and then the trade press may have been talking about the appearance in China of Radeon HD 4830 video cards that are out of the ordinary with several shading units have.

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