Legit Reviews

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/overclocking-tweaking-benchmarking/19228-phenom-ii-x2-550be-unlocked.html Some people managed to unlock the two extra cores and it's stable even after overclocking. Sadly, I've just confirmed that my GA-MA78GPM-UD2H is a Revision 1, with SB700, which doesn't fea...

Yeah, $102. I went ahead and ordered the 550 from newegg last night. I'm pretty sure it will fit my needs just fine - until I'm ready to invest in a mobo that can handle ddr3. Good call... I think you'll like it and as you saw from my article is has killer overclocking performance. Thanks for your ...

Yeah, $102. I went ahead and ordered the 550 from newegg last night. I'm pretty sure it will fit my needs just fine - until I'm ready to invest in a mobo that can handle ddr3.

Yeah, 3 cores just seems better but the price point on the 550 is so attractive.

I've got the GPU in my .sig
EVGA GTX 260, Using precision I've set its core at 740 and the mem at 1180.
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I guess I'm asking for help interpreting the results because I read the review before I posted and it seemed as though there was a somewhat negligible difference in gaming performance.

As you can see from my sys specs my processor is providing quite the bottle neck at the moment and I'm looking to trade up to a Phenom II. I can't afford an X4 so I was pretty set on the X3 720 but then along came the X2 550 BE with the same 6 MB cache, tons of OC headroom and (seemingly) no differe...