AMD officialy banned Core unlocking on 890 chipsets!

[Hawkeye4077]

Why are y'all griping about losing something you got for free? If this core unlock removal is true, are you really going to NOT buy AMD cpus?

[BeepBeep2]

No ACC = no buy from many enthusiasts hoping to get an unlucky unlock, like me (555 unlocked)

What? Enthusiast with a $100 CPU? You have to be kidding me...I had a tight budget and I still went and got a 965BE with slightly cheaper board.

[M3T4LM4N222]

Checked Asrock motherboard. it looks even better than Asus GX maybe direct competitor to Biostar :p

Things i've learned about ASRock:

There boards are often $30 cheaper than a competitor board, and often has more features.

There boards are rock solid and have a decent BIOS for overclocking

There boards are good all togeather.

I have owned a X58 ASrock board and run off a ASrock N68-S board in my mini gaming computer and neither one ever gave me problems.

I would buy ASrock again.

[Cele303]

Checked Asrock motherboard. it looks even better than Asus GX maybe direct competitor to Biostar :p

hehe It sure does look great and I can hardly wait to have them and continue to unlock 555's with them

[xdan]

Some closer pictures for 890GX EXTREME3...
It has POWER/RESET/CLEAR CMOS switches and DEBUG PANEL


And it appears that Asrock will have a 90-100$ 890GX board to..
890GMH/ USB3 (it has SATA3 to, despite the name...)

[Hawkeye4077]

That ASRock GX Extreme3 board looks like a REALLY good all in one motherboard.

Onboard -> HTPC output
PCIe x16.1 -> Folding GPU
PCIe x16.2 -> Folding GPU
PCIe x16.3 -> Perc 5/i



Now we just need slot speeds. Has anybody seen how the 890GX has its PCIe lanes broken down?

[M3T4LM4N222]

That ASRock GX Extreme3 board looks like a REALLY good all in one motherboard.

Onboard -> HTPC output
PCIe x16.1 -> Folding GPU
PCIe x16.2 -> Folding GPU
PCIe x16.3 -> Perc 5/i



Now we just need slot speeds. Has anybody seen how the 890GX has its PCIe lanes broken down?

x8/x8/x4, the board supports 3-way Crossfire, so either the 3rd card runs at x4 or they put a bridge chip on the board for x8/x8/x8

This is the board I plan to grab, it better hit newegg soon.

[duron]

...what! no more IDE's lol

[Serpentarius]

funny to have AMD ban the unlocker ..... what's the point? are they coming out 5-core CPU as opposed to the 6-core original design?

or is there's more hidden cores in that 6-core Thuban? intriguing...

[Lagg Master]

funny to have AMD ban the unlocker ..... what's the point? are they coming out 5-core CPU as opposed to the 6-core original design?

or is there's more hidden cores in that 6-core Thuban? intriguing...

I think it is because of the Zosma (960T). Will run at 3.3GHz and have 4 cores. Figure it is the Thuban with 2 cores locked.

[Serpentarius]

I think it is because of the Zosma (960T). Will run at 3.3GHz and have 4 cores. Figure it is the Thuban with 2 cores locked.

ohh i see. wow that's interesting. so that's the reason they go lengths to ban the unlocker.

[GenTarkin]

...what! no more IDE's lol

Oh , that sucks!! I was diggin that board till I noticed it when you said that =P
I still have 2 ODD's that are IDE lol!!

[chew*]

Guy's going on and using the term banning are incorrect, ACC was devised for PH I.

It was not needed nor technically supported by phenom II all though it caused interesting anomallies.

AMD dropped it due to no longer needing ACC.

What did ACC do on Phenom 1. Allowed users to gain 200-300 mhz more headroom.

Phenom II?

Surely no mhz gains however they continued to offer it on 790 to support the PH I users still out there.

Nothing really save the odd case of someone reporting some bench ran faster with it on but nothing that could not be discarded as a variable in any bench.

Last was the not so uncommon unlock of a chip, which was locked for a reason most likely 90% of the time.

[vengance_01]

Well I can see why AMD is doing this. They are trying to protect the up-coming 6 core chips. I still hope to see this as a feature with popular tier 1 manufactures.

[V0id]

Hasn't one of the boards manufacturers got there own version of ACC, as UCC?

[Raja@ASUS]

Things i've learned about ASRock:

There boards are often $30 cheaper than a competitor board, and often has more features.

There boards are rock solid and have a decent BIOS for overclocking

There boards are good all togeather.

I have owned a X58 ASrock board and run off a ASrock N68-S board in my mini gaming computer and neither one ever gave me problems.

I would buy ASrock again.

ASRock are trying to step-up their profile. Their boards have come a long way. One thing they need to change is their base warranty period though, the $30 or so you save gets you a one year warranty vs 3 years from ASUS and GB. Of course, warranty claim costs can end up being 50% of product value on lower budget boards, but it does not hurt to be competitive.

[THOMO]

funny to have AMD ban the unlocker ..... what's the point? are they coming out 5-core CPU as opposed to the 6-core original design?

or is there's more hidden cores in that 6-core Thuban? intriguing...

If only eh

Imagine, you buy a hexa-core to find it has another two locked cores

Octo-core love