Reported first by VR-Zone and spread wildly like fire around the world, lots of people now know that a certain type of CPU from AMD that shipped with triple cores can be restored to its origin, a quad. Users of Phenom II X3 are wildly excited with this info and had been trying to work the magic.

However, very few successful stories. Rumor has it that only 0904 batches of Phenom II X3 can be unlocked.

Interestingly, when AMD had released their very first triple core product, they had sworn that triple core was not a quad minus, instead they are specially developed…

Understandably, AMD is under more pressure these days, mainly due to their lackluster CPU and their insane enemy in filed of GPU, but if everything rumored was true, we can truly begin a new era in which we can overcount our CPUs.

Funny story.