Quote Originally Posted by ReKcOlNu View Post
I don't see why it would, the x2-550 is just a X4 to begin with, they are all the same cores, so there shouldn't be any need for more voltage, of course that is if you have a board with a decent BIOS and the CPU doesn't actually have 2 bad cores/cache... you can't fix broken cores no matter how much voltage you pump into the chip!
What I was referring to is model number and BIOS being aware of the CPU and what to auto-set things to. X4 B50 is not a real model number, so I would personally not trust a board to pick voltages, timings and tolerances correctly even if all the cores are 100% functional.