960t How to unlock two core?

HUSKIE · Jan 20, 2012

I have a little confused with my mobo gigabyte 880gma usb3. i want to unlock two core from my chip but when Im inside the bios i noticed that there is no ACC options to unlock them, Yes there in an option to unlock cpu but when i enabled it my rig freezing on motherboard LOGO and hasn't respond on my keboard. I have F3 bios as well on it.

PaulieG · Jan 20, 2012

HUSKIE said:
I have a little confused with my mobo gigabyte 880gma usb3. i want to unlock two core from my chip but when Im inside the bios i noticed that there is no ACC options to unlock them, Yes there in an option to unlock cpu but when i enabled it my rig freezing on motherboard LOGO and hasn't respond on my keboard. I have F3 bios as well on it.

If it freezes, it may mean that you either need more voltage to boot with the extra cores, or that at least one of the cores are bad. That's exactly what happened with one of my 960T's. there is simply no promises when it comes to unlocking cores.

HUSKIE · Jan 20, 2012

Thank you, so in need to put back to stock speed before do unlock extra core and give some extra voltages for them? Currently running 4ghz at 1.3v. Give me some advices for the voltages..

Thank you!

daimonass · Jan 20, 2012

HUSKIE said:
Thank you, so in need to put back to stock speed before do unlock extra core and give some extra voltages for them? Currently running 4ghz at 1.3v. Give me some advices for the voltages..

Thank you!

Yes, but when i unlock 960T, i don't give more voltages... But, my motherbord with 980 chipset.
So, good luck

HUSKIE · Jan 20, 2012

daimonass said:
Yes, but when i unlock 960T, i don't give more voltages... But, my motherbord with 980 chipset.
So, good luck

Cheers I've tried everything add some voltages blah blah blah it worse still freezes, i think i need a new mobo with 980 chipset.

brandonwh64 · Jan 20, 2012

If it freezes then its safe to say you have a dud chip. Continue using it as a quad or if you really need a 6 core, get a 1055T

PaulieG · Jan 20, 2012

HUSKIE said:
Cheers I've tried everything add some voltages blah blah blah it worse still freezes, i think i need a new mobo with 980 chipset.

Not sure it has anything to do with the chipset, since yours does have the ability to unlock. My 990FX board would not unlock one of my 960T's, and would freeze everytime I tried to unlock it.

HUSKIE · Jan 20, 2012

Paulieg said:
Not sure it has anything to do with the chipset, since yours does have the ability to unlock. My 990FX board would not unlock one of my 960T's, and would freeze everytime I tried to unlock it.

Still trying since the 960t has arrived yesterday until now. I will stick atm at x4 yet, i will let you know if does unlock or doesn't.. stay tuned!

JrRacinFan · Jan 20, 2012

There is a beta bios available. Try that before calling the extra 2 dud.

brandonwh64 · Jan 20, 2012

HUSKIE said:
Still trying since the 960t has arrived yesterday until now. I will stick atm at x4 yet, i will let you know if does unlock or doesn't.. stay tuned!

What you could do is RMA your current 960T to AMD and get another to see if it will unlock. Even though this is immoral, its well worth a shot.

newtekie1 · Jan 20, 2012

I've had two of these chips, one unlocked both cores successfully with just a minor bump in voltage and the other only unlocked 1 core successfully. It is just the luck of the draw with unlocking.

Radical_Edward · Jan 20, 2012

HUSKIE said:
Thank you, so in need to put back to stock speed before do unlock extra core and give some extra voltages for them? Currently running 4ghz at 1.3v. Give me some advices for the voltages..

Thank you!

Try backing down to stock clocks and start bumping up the voltage. It could be that the extra two cores aren't good clockers. :ohwell:

Norton · Jan 20, 2012

My 960T unlocked on 3 different generations of boards (790GX, 890X, 990X) and would post on the BIOS as a 6 core but would instantly blue screen just after the "starting windows" screen:shadedshu

*note- I got the blue screen on with Windows 7 and XP

Does your BIOS revision support the 6 core PII's?

I believe Jr Racing Fan noted a success rate to unlock around the 30% or so and I read somewhere in another thread that the cores were locked out due to issues with the memory controller?

As other have said, it's the luck of the draw- it's still a great chip though and overclocks very well :toast:

JrRacinFan · Jan 20, 2012

Norton said:
I believe Jr Racing Fan noted a success rate to unlock around the 30% or so

You are correct. Heard they are ~35% success rate, and of those most had to be downclocked.

@Newtekie

Congrats man on the good unlocks! :toast:

Norton · Jan 20, 2012

JrRacinFan said:
You are correct. Heard they are ~35% success rate, and of those most had to be downclocked.

@Newtekie

Congrats man on the good unlocks!

I tried just about everything in the trick bag to unlock mine, up volts, down clocks, 5 cores, 6 cores, dropping memory timing, etc... I gave in after a couple of days.

The X2 555 I have was super easy- a couple of BIOS clicks and Bam! 4 cores 100% stable :rockout:

I'm convinced my 555 was a dual core due to market demand/price point issues :cool:

HUSKIE · Jan 20, 2012

Check these out!

Enabling:

After it's an x6 core but freezing

Norton · Jan 20, 2012

You have CPU unlock disabled on your BIOS screen shot- try enabling that and leaving core control in auto. After you start to post then go back into setup and get the screenshot... you should see 6 cores when you switch core control to manual.

You have probably done this already but just took a screenshot of the 4 core setup :cool:

Other than that, it sounds like you may be in the majority with the rest of us

daimonass · Jan 20, 2012

Set CPU unlock = enable

HUSKIE · Jan 20, 2012

Ok just a sec.

HUSKIE · Jan 20, 2012

Cpu unlock enabled but i got the same problems like 2nd pictures above. It freezing again. Getting tired tho, better i will stay at x4 core.

anoobarak · Jan 20, 2012

Did you or did you not try increasing the CPU voltage? Try bumping 1.4V

HUSKIE · Jan 20, 2012

anoobarak said:
Did you or did you not try increasing the CPU voltage? Try bumping 1.4V

Yup! I did! i've been tried up the voltage to 1.5v, nothing happened still freezing...

HUSKIE · Jan 20, 2012

I'm getting sick of it, better to spend my time to cook something with my son.. Thanks anyway for those who help and replied for my thread...

JrRacinFan · Jan 20, 2012

HUSKIE said:
better i will stay at x4 core.

Overclock and be merry. :toast:

Slacker · May 21, 2012

Hey Huskie, I also have this cpu and also trying to unlock the other 2 cores. Your second screenshot is just like mine. It just says Amd 6 core processor and it freezes. My question is how do you get to the bios like that? My keyboard and mouse don't light up at all everytime i do that and it takes me hours just to get to the bios again.

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