It’s been an AMD sorta week in the Tech Tips lab! We covered how to unlock your Phenom II X3 710 or 720 Black edition and turn it into a quad core.

We’ve had a lot of comments about this video from people concerned about the legal ramifications of this video. All I have to say is this: Don’t worry about it.

This is no different from overclocking a 2.8GHz processor and turning it into a 3.6GHz processor (something we’re going to cover very shortly). It’s also no different from unlocking “pipes” on older generation graphics cards before the manufacturers took that option away from us.

It’s not a guarantee, but if you get one that unlocks, it’s a terrific value :)