Athlon X2 7750 BE Quad-Core Enabled via BIOS Trick
Looks like owners of the Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition can unlock two more CPU cores by merely exploiting flawed BIOS code. This trick was used on a Phenom II X3 as well. There's usually a reason for the cores to be disabled though. I wonder if you gain 2 cores but sacrifice stability.
Looks like owners of the Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition can unlock two more CPU cores by merely exploiting flawed BIOS code. This trick was used on a Phenom II X3 as well. There's usually a reason for the cores to be disabled though. I wonder if you gain 2 cores but sacrifice stability.
This was made possible by the way AMD has been designing its triple-core and dual-core processors based on the K10 "Stars" architecture: by disabling one or two cores on the quad-core die. "Sloppy" BIOS coding lead to the Phenom II X3 anomaly. It looks like a somewhat similar mod enables not one, but two cores on the sub-$100 Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition.