12-28-2011, 04:24 PM
I have an old Phenom II 550 BE dual core, that i've just recently started to tweak since the warranty is almost out so I thought it's now or never. For those who know, it has 2 extra cores that are considered bad and are deactivate, but sometimes one or two of them are in fact working and you can unlock them. I've manage to unlock the extra 2 cores, posted well in bios but never manage to go beyond the Windows logo. But I know you can try to make it a tri-core, but I to dissable each core to figure out if any of the "deffective" ones actually works and the only problem in this is that I haven't figured out how to do this. I have an Asus motherboard with an nVidia chipset , more exactly the M4N72-E. NVCC goes between -12% to 12 % there is no deactivate function that I can see.
Can anyone tell me where could I do such a thing, or can the bios be modified so I can chose which cores to use? (as I've seen on some gigabytes mobos)
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Can anyone tell me where could I do such a thing, or can the bios be modified so I can chose which cores to use? (as I've seen on some gigabytes mobos)
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/191...127zg.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/703...0126l.jpg/