AMD Phenom II X4 970 Black Edition Unlocking Attempt Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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523 words · ~2 min read
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well it's experiment time on the lonus tech tips show I've just booted up the
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MSI 870a Fusion that's the Lucid Hydro
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board with the
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AMD here it is X4 970 and I want to find
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out if it will unlock to six core so uh
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see most settings wrong press F1 to run setup this is very normal for the first
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time you boot up a board and let's go
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and try and figure out how to do this
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okay unlock CPU core enabled all
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course uh I'm not going to do any actual
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overclocking or anything CPU core
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control okay that's on auto is fine so
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um let's find out what happened back in a moment the suspense is killing me here
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I'm at the desktop but my mouse driver isn't recognized yet I tried unplugging
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it and plugging it back into a different port and it didn't work sometimes that
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works ah come on most driver I don't want to reboot cuz it's not really worth
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the hassle you can see the resolution is wrong on the desktop because I rebooted
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with uh a completely different hardware
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setup so I'll take this time to address
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once once again why it always says this
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copy of Windows is not genuine it's because when I change Hardware it'll
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want me to reactivate which takes about 6 minutes online and there's no way I'm
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gonna spend that amount of time every time I need to test something because
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that's really dumb so that's why I do
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what I do okay it says course 4 threads
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4 and that is verified by task manager
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so let's see if maybe I did something wrong and I'll be back in a moment okay
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well digging a little bit further into the cell menu reveals a couple of things
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uh first of all that this CPU is not
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unlockable not in the sense that you can try to unlock it and then it'll either
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work or it won't but this particular chip is not unlockable at all so even
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when you enable all cores and if you go and set the core control to manual you
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can see there are only a potential for Cores to enable or disable so you don't
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have the op there aren't there aren't latent cores just sitting on this this
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isn't a uh a harvested six core CPU for
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a lower-end part now I've heard stories that some of the 970s will be but it
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looks like this one is not so it is a four core it is unlocked you are getting
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everything as advertised but it looks like there's no six core unlocking uh
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Special Sauce to be had at least on my
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970 we may see more people trying this over the coming weeks and uh please feel
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free to comment under this video and let me know if others do have success but
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there you have it