Asus turns Phenom II 960T (quad) into hexacore

[[XC] Oj101]

The 550BE/555BE were pretty much stable across the board, so I'd say chances are high.

[Olivon]

Someone got ideas about price ? 160-180$ ?

[tajoh111]

I wouldn't count in this lasting to long or being that consistent. I bought a x2 550 BE in hopes of unlocking another core with a biostar MB, anything besides stock or raised clock lead to the system not booting and require a bios reset.

[Manicdan]

statistically it seemed to be like a 60-70% chance of working

[endlesszeal]

Don't some BIOS have settings to only enable a certain number of cores?

yes, my msi 785g-e51 can turn on/off cores that are supposed to be there or unlocked ones.

[Wiggy McShades]

Well if one of the unlocked cores is bad,my idea is not unreasonable .

exactly, one free core is still a free core last time i checked.

[Lightman]

Excellent news!

I will still go and get 1090T but this 960T will be VERY popular in price conciousness countries

Congratz to Asus, MSI, AsRock for enabling that feature in BIOS and BIG THANKS to AMD for not blocking this properly

[initialised]

I wouldn't count in this lasting to long or being that consistent. I bought a x2 550 BE in hopes of unlocking another core with a biostar MB, anything besides stock or raised clock lead to the system not booting and require a bios reset.

That' odd around 1 in 5 fail and some of them POST, maybe it was old stock or old BIOS.

Congratz to Asus, MSI, AsRock for enabling that feature in BIOS and BIG THANKS to AMD for not blocking this properly

Why would they block a feature that shifts chips and gets an install base ready for the next generation.

[tajoh111]

That' odd around 1 in 5 fail and some of them POST, maybe it was old stock or old BIOS.Why would they block a feature that shifts chips and gets an install base ready for the next generation.

I couldn't find any newer bios. The model I had was the Biostar TA790GXB3.

I set ACC to auto, up the voltage on the core and the northbridge, set the hyper transport down. Lower the clocks, Anytime ACC was enabled it would not post and I would need to remove the this annoying jumper to get it to reset the bios. It was honestly one of the most stressful overclocks I have ever done because I wasn't even slightly getting better results, everything I did lead to a no post.

[hyc]

Well if one of the unlocked cores is bad,my idea is not unreasonable .

As long as you get to control exactly which core to unlock...

[TurboDiv]

SO my MSI can do this ? Free lunch ?

[BulldogPO]

Yeah!
I have now X5650 and L5640 hexas crunching WCG, nice clock speeds and low volts.
Also couple of quads.
So these are very welcome

[TheVaLVe]

Asrock is asus lil' bro.... The division that tried for cheap solution and weird stuff so the brother's name won't be stained.

[zalbard]

Neat. Hopefully they're at least typically stable after unlocking, that would be awesome.

Pretty sure they will be.
Just hope this is not some kind of slipped quality control thing and this is not going to be cut off. Very nice in any case!

[saaya]

Well if one of the unlocked cores is bad,my idea is not unreasonable .

yeah but you cant chose which core gets disabled... so maybe the 5th core is damaged and the 6th is fine... but you cant enab;le the 6th without the 5th :/

thats something i think would really be cool and i hope amd and intel do it next gen... being able to chose which core you will use to turbo boost, and being able to disable cores that dont clock well or run really hot

Why is it showing X6 1605T even with the unlock turned OFF?

seems to be a cpuz bug... not sure, franck is already looking into it

yes, my msi 785g-e51 can turn on/off cores that are supposed to be there or unlocked ones.

really? you can select which core to enabled and disable? or just select the amount of cores that are active?

BIG THANKS to AMD for not blocking this properly

hear hear!
too bad intel doesnt do something like this...
talking about intel... what exactly DOES intel do with quads where 1 or 2 cores dont match their bin? do they throw them away?

oh wait, there are dualcore xeons that are based on quadcore silicon right?
so they sell them as server chips...

Asrock is asus lil' bro.... The division that tried for cheap solution and weird stuff so the brother's name won't be stained.

not anymore they're not

asus and pegatron split into two companies, and there was and still is quite some tension between them...
asrock is part of pegatron now, and asus is... still asus
in case you didnt notice, asrock and asus have been competing for a year or so already if not longer, even before the companies split up... asus tried to enter the highend segment with their boards and offered the same features as asus boards and was selling them at the same price too... well, they tried for some time

[PatRaceTin]

all board with acc may do this

[STEvil]

yeah but you cant chose which core gets disabled... so maybe the 5th core is damaged and the 6th is fine... but you cant enab;le the 6th without the 5th :/

thats something i think would really be cool and i hope amd and intel do it next gen... being able to chose which core you will use to turbo boost, and being able to disable cores that dont clock well or run really hot

seems to be a cpuz bug... not sure, franck is already looking into it

really? you can select which core to enabled and disable? or just select the amount of cores that are active?

hear hear!
too bad intel doesnt do something like this...
talking about intel... what exactly DOES intel do with quads where 1 or 2 cores dont match their bin? do they throw them away?

oh wait, there are dualcore xeons that are based on quadcore silicon right?
so they sell them as server chips...


not anymore they're not

asus and pegatron split into two companies, and there was and still is quite some tension between them...
asrock is part of pegatron now, and asus is... still asus
in case you didnt notice, asrock and asus have been competing for a year or so already if not longer, even before the companies split up... asus tried to enter the highend segment with their boards and offered the same features as asus boards and was selling them at the same price too... well, they tried for some time

ASRock makes better boards than Asus these says

[Dumo]

saaya everyone can see its a X6 1605T stop the lies and telling people that its 960T... j/k

If you people need info on board check this

All new Asus AM3 "Xtreme Design" boards work like Locksmith....It unlocked everything

[[XC] Oj101]

all board with acc may do this

ACC isn't part of 890FX

[saaya]

ASRock makes better boards than Asus these says

better in what regards? price perf? im not surprised

havent used an asus or asrock board in ages, so idk...
sof told me the recent asus boards are pretty good, very stable bios and good efficiency... havent heard of somebody using asrock for quite a while...

i heard a rumor that lots of good engineers decided to join asrock instead of asus when the two split up... no idea if thats true though...

[[XC] Oj101]

better in what regards? price perf? im not surprised

havent used an asus or asrock board in ages, so idk...
sof told me the recent asus boards are pretty good, very stable bios and good efficiency... havent heard of somebody using asrock for quite a while...

i heard a rumor that lots of good engineers decided to join asrock instead of asus when the two split up... no idea if thats true though...

Let me explain:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...1&d=1271597249

[bingo13]

i heard a rumor that lots of good engineers decided to join asrock instead of asus when the two split up... no idea if thats true though...

Not true, ASRock has had their own engineering staff for the past few years and has been filling out positions where ASUS provided support for the last year. ASRock was spun off from ASUS back in 2002 to be exact but some engineering resources (more like consulting recently) have been shared between the two companies for quite some time although that ends shortly. Even though Pegatron will be officially spun off this summer with the completion of the IPO, ASUS will still maintain a 25% shareholder stake in the new company.

[saaya]

Let me explain:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...1&d=1271597249

oh, i see... i think thats more of a support issue than anything else really... they should have released a new revision or released a hardware mod to you guys or offered to fix/upgrade the boards and solve the issue... or at least give you back your money...

this kind of errors can happen to every board maker i think... if they would have handled it properly, all would have been forgiven and forgotten...

Not true, ASRock has had their own engineering staff for the past few years

yes, but i heard quite some people moved from asus to pegatron recently...

so many that asus put a stop to it and people who now want to switch sides have to leave asus and work for a another company for 1 year before they can be hired by asrock.

thats what several people told me...
could be exaggerated or made up tho... theres a lot of gossip about hw companies here in taiwan

[[XC] Oj101]

14 out of 16 dead is really bad no matter how good their support is

[Manicdan]

14 out of 16 dead is really bad no matter how good their support is

i havnt been watching, but is it the same issue with every board? or they just DOAs?