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Was reading THG and came across this AMD Blocks Unlock; Gigabyte Fights Back.
As some of you may recall I tried unlocking the 4th core of my 720BE when I got it and had no luck, which was not the reason I got the trike, it was the price and the fact that I really don't need 3 cores let alone 4 as I rarely use 3 let alone 4 .
After reading this I thought I'll give it another go.
Into bios F5A I went of my MA790X-UD4P and there is a new option under ACC which is "Hybrid". So I set ACC to auto and left the Hybrid at normal. Boot windows and no joy, 3 cores as always. So back into bios and changed normal to hybrid, save, exit (note: it takes a while for the bios to change this setting and it will power down and auto restart). Boot windows and OMG there be 4 cores here Captain . So I am testing stability currently and so far 3.5Ghz is lookin real good at 1.35V. Suffice to say I am really liking this mobo .
Will update testing results when I have a chance to explore this "new" core.
Side note CPUz and Bios report a AMD Phenom II X4 20 Processor, not 720 or 920, just 20.
As some of you may recall I tried unlocking the 4th core of my 720BE when I got it and had no luck, which was not the reason I got the trike, it was the price and the fact that I really don't need 3 cores let alone 4 as I rarely use 3 let alone 4 .
After reading this I thought I'll give it another go.
Into bios F5A I went of my MA790X-UD4P and there is a new option under ACC which is "Hybrid". So I set ACC to auto and left the Hybrid at normal. Boot windows and no joy, 3 cores as always. So back into bios and changed normal to hybrid, save, exit (note: it takes a while for the bios to change this setting and it will power down and auto restart). Boot windows and OMG there be 4 cores here Captain . So I am testing stability currently and so far 3.5Ghz is lookin real good at 1.35V. Suffice to say I am really liking this mobo .
Will update testing results when I have a chance to explore this "new" core.
Side note CPUz and Bios report a AMD Phenom II X4 20 Processor, not 720 or 920, just 20.
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