Activating 4 Cores On The Phenom II X3 710

[Osiris]

Activating 4 Cores On The Phenom II X3 710

There are a number of people in our forums saying they have found a way to unlock the fourth core on some Phenom II X3 710 processors. There are also a handful of links and screenshots in the forums to different places that have all claimed to have activated the fourth core.

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The two screen caps above were pulled from one of the sites linked in the forums. They show a before and after shot of the bios setting (one with 3 cores enabled, one with 4 enabled) but I found something odd in the second screenshot....it looks like the number 7 fell off the Phenom II X3 "710" somehow.

 

[aaronkupen]

Couldn't this somehow be a bad thing due to the fact that some of these chips actually have a faulty fourth core?

 

[Hussein19891]

Couldn't this somehow be a bad thing due to the fact that some of these chips actually have a faulty fourth core?

Definetly, but there will always be those lucky few who won't have issues with the unlocked core.

Doesn't hurt to try, worst that can happen is having to reset your bios.

 

[gurusan]

I think I saw 1 guy who was able to get 3.1ghz with 4 cores stable....I also saw another guy that couldn't even get the 4th stable at 1ghz