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And of course the people raising all hell before fully knowing the situation are clamming up shut now...

So many people in the YouTube comments that sound like they didn't even watch half of the video and just wanted to hear Brandon tell them how much better the V30 is compared to the rest and were disappointed when he didn't. Makes me wish you guys would do a follow up (Honest Answers ep 6? wink wink) and answer people's complaints.

Yeah that seems like the only option at this point

That's the thing though, I've hard reset both routers for the umpteenth time now since yesterday. Each time, as soon as I connect the cable that goes directly to our ISP and gets an internet connection, I lose control of our main router/modem. Also I can't access the modem's firewall whenever it switches to the "bare bones" control panel

I really need some help figuring out what's going on with my router(s) right now. It all started last night while I was watching a Twitch stream when our main router/modem, a Cisco DPC3825 provided by our ISP, suddenly reboot itself for some reason. I thought it was fine at first, we called our ISP several days earlier because our internet has been super slow for the past week (and it still was yesterday), and they told us they'd send someone to check what was up on the 8th, so I thought they were just doing some maintenance related to that. Nope. I got an internet connection again on my desktop connected via ethernet, which was faster than ever now, like it was back to it's old, normal speed, but I couldn't find the WiFi signal on my phone. So I thought maybe our ISP pushed out an update and installed it somehow (if that's even possible through cable) and it switched off the WiFi functionality. So again, I thought this was fine, I'll just connect to our 2nd WiFi router (which we bought ourselves, some low-end Linksys model) and fix the problem after. Then I found out I couldn't do either of those. No device could connect to our 2nd router, and I couldn't connect to our main router's control panel (which was usually at 192.168.1.1). So I load up cmd and use ipconfig to find out what the new address was, see what I assumed to be it, aaaaand I still couldn't access it (also noted that "cg.shawcable.net" was also now listed on there, even though I've never seen that before on previous ipconfigs) . Weird. So I go get our 2nd router from the other room, connect it directly to my desktop via ethernet, and then tried to access it's control panel. Still no. So at this point the only thing I could think of was to reset our 2nd router and see if that at least brings back WiFi for the rest of my family to use. Did that, hooked it back up to our main router/modem, aaaand no internet connection was going through it. But hey I could access it's control panel now. Next I try to reset our main router/modem. First minute after that there were good signs. I could access it again through 192.168.0.1 (it's default address), and I could access our 2nd router's control panel through it, too. Now all I had to do was wait for the internet to come back. As soon as I seem to get an internet connection again, main router/modem restarts, and seemed to be doing what all started this, again. First minute after it reboots, while there was still no internet connection, I do the ipconfig command again, and I see 192.168.100.10 (or something along those lines) listed. So I try connecting to 192.168.100.1, and hey! I see the log-in for the control panel! Put in the default username and password (which I did change prior to resetting). Click log in, and I get into what seems to be a bare bones version of the control panel. Just a bit after and the internet was back on. I do another ipconfig, and 192.168.100.X is not listed in there anymore (it's showing "cg.shawcable.net" again plus other stuff). Refresh 192.168.100.1, and I see the log-in page again. Put in the defaults again, and it just brings me back to the log-in page. It seems to acknowledge whether you put in the wrong username and/or passwords or not, but it just wouldn't bring me to the actual control panel. And now our internet speeds were worse than ever (though it did get a bit better the next morning) PLUS I couldn't access our 2nd router's control panel through it now too. TL;DR: Main router/modem is being weird, 2nd router is now fine but doesn't get any internet from main one. EDIT: Forgot to mention this, but the first time the main router/modem restarted last night my desktop suddenly started using a TON of downstream bandwidth without anything really open to be doing that (fluctuating from around 4 Mbps up to around 12 Mbps). Checked what was using it in Task Manager and it wasn't showing me anything, opened Resource Monitor and apparently it was "svchost.exe (NetworkService)", which I proceeded to end. Don't know what that was all about. Also our ISP is Shaw (Canadian), so that sort of explains the "cg.shawcable.net" bit in a way

Ye olde 7770 in mine, could use an upgrade GIBE NAO PLS

Oh well, c'est la vie. Was worth a shot, but considering I bought the system used for only 40 CAD, I could probably stomach sinking another 40 on a motherboard and try my luck there. Thanks to everyone who replied

So I recently discovered that the AMD Athlon II X4 640 in my system is actually the model that I can potentially unlock to a Phenom II X6 if I can unlock the cores. I found this out because CPU-Z lists my CPU as a Thuban core (rather than Propus, which is what a real 640 is made from) and as a 640"T" (rather than just 640). To get to actually unlocking the disabled cores, though, I would need a motherboard that can support unlocking in the first place. Unfortunately, my motherboard is an OEM part from HP/Foxconn (Alvorix RS880 uATX), and as you can imagine, it doesn't have that magic unlocking bit of the equation (funnily enough, it seems the only reason I got a Thuban CPU in the first place is because it came from HP, who apparently did this a lot of times back then). I could buy a motherboard that does support core unlocking, but even if it was a used one having to buy one, coupled with the uncertainty of even successfully unlocking a core or two in the first place (effectively making my purchase useless), gives me reasons not to do so. So now on to my question: assuming I can find someone somewhere in Calgary with an AM3/AM3+ motherboard that supports core unlocking, would it be possible to unlock my Thuban in another guy's PC and then put it back in my PC with the unlock still on? I know, it sounds like a lot of work compared to just buying a motherboard outright, but unlocking the CPU is not actually that high on my list of things to do. If I can do it, great, I'll go over to a guy's house and get it done. If it doesn't work, oh well, important thing is it only really cost me time instead of money to find out. Thanks for your attention