Originally Posted by AbyssUnderground

Basically I got a Phenom II dual core but it was a quad core locked down to a dual core. The motherboard I got was only capable of a max of 85w CPU's, the now unlocked quad core was 105w, so when loaded up to 100% usage, it burnt something out because of the extra power draw. I suffered crashing all the time not long after I unlocked it. I tried swapping the memory out but that made no difference. After looking into it I found the power requirements thing and assumed that was what caused it.