AMD x3 Triple-core Phenoms have fourth core enabled

[jiro]

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Triple-core Phenoms have fourth core enabled

how to unlock

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To enable the 4th core, just go to bios and set Advance Clock Calibration to Auto and restart the machine. On the next boot, it will enable the 4th core.

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A KOREAN WEBSITE HAS apparently managed to turn on the additional core in a triple-core Phenom II X3 710 processor making it into a quad core processor.
According to Playwares.com, all you have to do to open up the extra core is go into the bios and set the Advanced Clock Calibration to 'Auto' and restart the machine and, hey presto... four cores!
Apparently, the jiggery pokery only works with Biostar motherboards and you can be sure that if AMD deliberately hobbled one of the processor's cores, they have a pretty good reason for doing so.
It's not clear whether the additional core is capable of doing any practical processing but the Bios as well as a number of analytical tools including Prime95, 3DMark and Futuremark, certainly seem to recognise the fourth core's presence.

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nice no?
anyone have x3 phenoms? does it work with your motherboard?
basig biostar motherboard ra ni?

sources:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...h-core-enabled
Phenom II X3 AM3 710 can be unlocked as X4 Cores

[Der FüHRER]

haha nice share. maybe not all of the disabled 4th cores are 'defective'

[muzikfreakah]

And BIOSTAR=REDFOX, so for you guys with the cheap redfox boards, try this out na!

[chagorio]

sa phenom II x3 ra jud ni sya?? ppffttt..

[moz_k2]

basin ug quad jud ni cya nya naa compatibility issue pag dev.
mao nahimo X3
hehehe bout2 lang

[personalmgt]

Exponential Growth is 1-2-4-8-16-32-64... not 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8... Fail for AMD though.

[dmelsie]

hmmmmm i think mag paabot lang guro ta if available na ni kay boborato ra rabag price ni
if maohon sos pyter very cheap price maka quad naka hehehe
phenom 710 lang noon nindot unta og phenom 720 ni kay base sa akoa nabasahan bang for the buck daw kaayo ni phenom 720
plus backward compatibility sa am2+ mobo makagamit naka sa imo ddr2 while waiting mo drop gamay ang price sa ddr3 hehehehe ayos pod ni strategy sa amd da... namawi sad sila ani nga part

[COMCAM]

hmmm, may sad, basin design jud ni pang quad - great marketing stint for AMD!

[Der FüHRER]

basin pwede sad himoon tri-core or quad core ang athlon x2 7xxx series ani..kay pareho ra man na cla sa phenom, disabled lng ang 2 cores..hehe

[EarlZ]

Reminds me of the old bridging gaps years back to unlock pipelines on a videocard