unlocking 4th core

[iandh]

why are you guys so hell bent on doing this? Obviously its been disabled for a very good reason

I am not hell bent, I just spent about 30 seconds updating the bios, another 30 seconds changing ACC to "auto", and another 30 seconds starting OCCT.

I've had this mobo/cpu for weeks and this is the first time I've made an attempt to unlock it. I purchased them together on release day before unlocking was even known. I did this just out of sheer curiousity.

It looks so far that I got one of the good chips that just has a disabled core to be sold as an X3, which is further confirmed by how many have had luck with 0904's.

If I have a good fourth core that I can enable with little to no effort and no negative consequence, can you give me a good reason why I should not enable it?

Just so you guys Know....AMD has made request to Mobo Makers to remove that feature capability from Bios.

Obviously that didn't matter to Gigabyte because yesterday they just added bios F3b "Update ACC code for Phenom X3 CPU" that enables unlocking.



edit: Also, nobody ever seemed to be upset about people unlocking geforce 6800's via bios mod, how is this any different?