I managed to unlock the fourth core of my AMD Athlon II X3 445 and still overclock it to 3.42GHz. It is now reported as an AMD Phenom II X4 B45 processor but without the 6Mb of L3 cache.This makes it an even better processor as it easily breaks the 10,000 PCmark05 barrier and it appears to be even more responsive. Not bad for just £57! I did add an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro v2 cooling fan and a pair of Corsair 2Gb DDR3 1333MHz memory modules. It is still worth it.
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