Phenom II X3-720BE Confirmed running 4 cores on GIGABYTE MA790GP-UD4H

[charged3800z24]

What board works the best and what bios? Seems some say fx/gx some say only one not the other.

Any consensus yet?

I have a few SB750 boards, I will try them all and see what I get with mine. Might depend on bios versions also...

[Ross1]

i have the GA-MA790FXT-UD5P + X3 720, and i couldnt see a setting in the BIOS for auto ACC.

[jlacy76]

I have the 0904 cpmw stepping. That one is said to work as well.

[mngdew]

i have the GA-MA790FXT-UD5P + X3 720, and i couldnt see a setting in the BIOS for auto ACC.

At the main bios screen press Ctrl + F1. It will give you more bios tweak options.

[Smartidiot89]

Can someone with a 3-core/790GX combo run a stability test with the 4th core enabled on stock settings?

Prefered would be something like OCCT or a Linpack program for an hour or 2 (more if you're up for it!). Prime is good but I want a 24h+ to consider it stable

[pcmech]

I have had sort of the same thing happen to me with a 7750 Kuma. Sometimes it boots up as a 4 core "engineering sample" on a Biostar TA790GX 128. When it does, it runs fairly hot. That may be why the other 2 cores were "disabled" (but no quite) on mine.

[Ross1]

At the main bios screen press Ctrl + F1. It will give you more bios tweak options.

I always forget about that..... anyway I set it from disabled to auto, but it doesnt seem to enabled a 4th core. Still says 3 cores and 3 threads in cpu-z.

[Benny Lodewijk]

Testing Specification

• Prosessor AMD Phenom II X3-720 Black Edition
• Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-MA790GP-UD4H BIOS F1
• Memory Team Xtreem DDR2-1300 2 GB Kit
• VGA GIGABYTE GeForce GTX260 (192SP)
• PSU GIGABYTE Odin Pro 1200 Watt
• Heatsink Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme + Scythe Kaze 120mm 3000 rpm fan

Benchmark Comparison 3 core vs 4 core.

Cinebench R10

3 Core



4 Core



PCMark Vantage

3 Core



4 Core

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3DMARK 2006

3 Core



4 Core



WPrime

3 Core



4 Core



Comparison Table

[ecat]

A fully formed fourth core. Nice one.

How much can we read into the benchmark comparison re extra core vs sharing the lvl3 cache ?