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zachj

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Aug 19, 2002
Location
Redmond, Washington
Basic question: if I enable ucc and do nothing else, machine doesn't post. If I drop the clock speed and enable ucc it does post with all six cores active. Common sense says either one or both of the two unlocked cores dont work 100% or that I need to bump voltage to make then stable at stock clockspeed.

So, if I dont want to overclock and just want the extra cores, what should be my target voltages on the various voltage knobs? I get that a core may be defective but it's too early to throw in that towel until I've thrown a REASONABLE amount of volts at it with no improvement :)

Also curious if needing more volts for unlock is normal...most people are saying they enabled ucc and it just worked but I dont know if they have to tickle voltage to get it stable!

Z
 
Sometimes you may need to bump the vcore up slightly but not a great deal, if it won't post after a bump to, say 1.40v-1.425v, then one or both of the cores are defective. You can always try disabling one of the cores after unlocking them and go for 5 cores as there is more of a chance for 5 to be viable, but I guess you can only do that if it will post after the unlock huh!, I have had 2 of these chips both unlock to 6 cores stable but one of them would not boot into windows 7, it kept coming up with a page fault and blue screened, yet it passed hours of prime in win xp (freaky). If you check my sig there's a link to a vid I made on unlocking these, and you will be safe to crank it up to 1.5v to test but if it needs that much to post its busted anyway. :thup:
 
I searched around and couldn't find what is the default voltage on these...if I wanted a ten percent vcore increase what voltage would I set on vcore? Do I need to mess with voltage on anything else?

z
 
I think stock is around 1.28 - 1.3v ish, so you're talking close on 1.43v with a 10% increase, and so long as the vcore is high enough you should be good,as long as the cores are viable, if it won't go then I got one of mine to boot into 7 by disabling core 3 for some reason, just a thought.
 
Core number 5 has been bad on quite a few 960Ts lately. However you may have to disable each core until you find the weaker one if raising Vcore does not make all 6 cores at least bootable.

Personally if I were disabling the cores to see if one is 'really' bad, I would disable the last core first. You might save time and hit the weak one first.
 
Well I'll certainly try that...at this point I dont even have an OS on the box and am just trying to sniff out if the cores are viable before I find time to finish building the rig.

Z
 
My new CPU 960T (buy as select,OEM, [email protected], box looks like that http://www.falconcomputers.co.uk/me...x4-amd-phenom-ii-x4-960t-am3-black-retail.jpg: ):
http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc456/gre_gre/bios gb x6/698.jpg
Before ulnlock cores (by ACC, MOBo Gigabyte, SB710):
http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc456/gre_gre/bios gb x6/699.jpg
After unlock:
http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc456/gre_gre/bios gb x6/700.jpg
In my MoBo list CPU:
http://www.gigabyte.pl/gocom/support-downloads/cpu-support-popup.aspx?pid=3154
I not see CPU 1605T.I know CPUz it's not perfect identify CPU when CPU cores are unlocked but what CPU it is really in x6 mode?
 
It is not a retail CPU when unlocked and you won't find one in the stores,CPU-z doesn't know what it is once you unlock it and just throws anything out as the name
 
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