My old motherboard died 2 years ago and I had to replace it but my previous CPU was the wrong socket and basically too old for the new board so I bought myself a really cheap CPU (Athlon 2 x3) .. when I got home and put it in the new board low and behold it automatically unlocked to a Phenom 2 B40 x4 3.0...
This year I have been spending cash on a new build on a very strict budget, long story short Iv ran out of cash for now and still have a couple of pieces to get for the system so in the mean time I was going to run my CPU in the new system until such times as I can afford to replace it...
My question is with this being an unlocked Athlon 2 and is only supposed to be running 3 cores instead of 4 would it be advisable to try and overclock it (and if yes would it be worth it) or should I leave it alone till I can change the CPU?
This year I have been spending cash on a new build on a very strict budget, long story short Iv ran out of cash for now and still have a couple of pieces to get for the system so in the mean time I was going to run my CPU in the new system until such times as I can afford to replace it...
My question is with this being an unlocked Athlon 2 and is only supposed to be running 3 cores instead of 4 would it be advisable to try and overclock it (and if yes would it be worth it) or should I leave it alone till I can change the CPU?
