well it's experiment time on the lonus tech tips show I've just booted up the
MSI 870a Fusion that's the Lucid Hydro
board with the
AMD here it is X4 970 and I want to find
out if it will unlock to six core so uh
see most settings wrong press F1 to run setup this is very normal for the first
time you boot up a board and let's go
and try and figure out how to do this
okay unlock CPU core enabled all
course uh I'm not going to do any actual
overclocking or anything CPU core
control okay that's on auto is fine so
um let's find out what happened back in a moment the suspense is killing me here
I'm at the desktop but my mouse driver isn't recognized yet I tried unplugging
it and plugging it back into a different port and it didn't work sometimes that
works ah come on most driver I don't want to reboot cuz it's not really worth
the hassle you can see the resolution is wrong on the desktop because I rebooted
with uh a completely different hardware
setup so I'll take this time to address
once once again why it always says this
copy of Windows is not genuine it's because when I change Hardware it'll
want me to reactivate which takes about 6 minutes online and there's no way I'm
gonna spend that amount of time every time I need to test something because
that's really dumb so that's why I do
what I do okay it says course 4 threads
4 and that is verified by task manager
so let's see if maybe I did something wrong and I'll be back in a moment okay
well digging a little bit further into the cell menu reveals a couple of things
uh first of all that this CPU is not
unlockable not in the sense that you can try to unlock it and then it'll either
work or it won't but this particular chip is not unlockable at all so even
when you enable all cores and if you go and set the core control to manual you
can see there are only a potential for Cores to enable or disable so you don't
have the op there aren't there aren't latent cores just sitting on this this
isn't a uh a harvested six core CPU for
a lower-end part now I've heard stories that some of the 970s will be but it
looks like this one is not so it is a four core it is unlocked you are getting
everything as advertised but it looks like there's no six core unlocking uh
Special Sauce to be had at least on my
970 we may see more people trying this over the coming weeks and uh please feel
free to comment under this video and let me know if others do have success but
there you have it