Biostar mobo enables fourth core on Phenom X3

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited February 2009 in Science & Tech
Biostar mobo enables fourth core on Phenom X3

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  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    Awesome. I wonder how reliable those fourth cores will prove to be, or if they hamper overclocks?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    Who knows! Bold unknowns in the name of <b>SCIENCE</b>.
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    I thought the disabled core was physically removed from the equation by laser cutting or some other form of technomagic.
  • MiracleManSMiracleManS Chambersburg, PA Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    Apparently their technomagic wasn't black enough.
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    This may just accelerate my new system build!
  • mertesnmertesn I am Bobby Miller Yukon, OK Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    Well, they say BIOS setting. You're really just drawing a fourth core with a pencil.
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited February 2009
    mertesn wrote:
    Well, they say BIOS setting. You're really just drawing a fourth core with a pencil.

    Exactly my thought. I'd be surprised if the 'fourth' core is anything but a BIOS bug. I doubt it could ever be used. In my conversations with AMD last year when the X3 first launched, they told me the core is disabled completely. My understanding is that it doesn't even receive any electrical current. It'd take one heck of a bug to somehow undo all of that.
  • Asif
    edited February 2009
    Hi,
    I would be extremely interested to find out whether this actually works and is true.
    If someone has tried it can you please e-mail me: ajaved1@hotmail.com
  • Your-Amish-DaddyYour-Amish-Daddy The heart of Texas
    edited February 2009
    No, the 4th core is really there. As in, if you got an electron microscope and looked at the die, it's there.
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