Posted by: BROWN HAWK
Well, quad-cores have dropped in price in the past couple years, so a brand-new Phenom II BE is only like $100/125, and around $200 for an i5/i7 (but you probably don't have motherboard support), but if you're not being bottlenecked by your Athlon I don't see a real reason to try and unlock the other core. And if I understand correctly, there is a slight risk of damaging the CPU if you attempt to. I could be wrong about that.
I'm not sure how to tell if I'm being bottlenecked, so that's why I unlocked it and am into getting a new one.
There are some 95w Phenoms, but none of them are the BE.