Asus working on unlocked multi for retail Core 2 Duo & 975X chipsets

d.chatten · 25 Aug 2006 at 11:49

Has anyone seen this article from AnandTech, the quote below is from the last page of the article "Our Thoughts".

ASUS has told us they are not finished with this "Conroe Unlock" feature and that they are working on BIOS revisions to also bring Core 2 Duo unlock to 975X chipset motherboards. We have seen hardware modifications to the Intel 975 BadAxe that allow unlocking, and it would be great if ASUS can accomplish the same with a simple 975 BIOS upgrade, as they have on the P5B Deluxe.

ASUS P5B: New BIOS Adds Unlocking & Improved Overclocking

Kabaala · 25 Aug 2006 at 11:58

Be nice if the e6300 could be unlocked upwards

Doubt it though.

Massive Attack · 25 Aug 2006 at 12:40

Kabaala said:
Be nice if the e6300 could be unlocked upwards Doubt it though.

wouldnt it just, a 10X multi would me nicely

gam3r · 25 Aug 2006 at 13:05

Would be cool...but the question is how much extra heat will an increased multi produce?

Justintime · 25 Aug 2006 at 15:26

gam3r said:
Would be cool...but the question is how much extra heat will an increased multi produce?

None, just means you may have a much higher overclock if say your OC was limited by RAM/FSB, you'd have the option of upping the multi instead of FSB.

El Jimben · 25 Aug 2006 at 18:39

Was reading about this earlier funnily enough, check this out for more info: http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2822

d.chatten · 26 Aug 2006 at 03:13

El Jimben said:
Was reading about this earlier funnily enough, check this out for more info: http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2822

This is the same article as i posted in the first post to start this thread. LOL

Massive Attack · 26 Aug 2006 at 10:23

i also found this article on the same thing

ASUS P5B

d.chatten · 26 Aug 2006 at 10:32

Massive Attack said:
i also found this article on the same thing

ASUS P5B

You are the second person to post the same article as i posted in my first post to start this thread. LOL

Massive Attack · 26 Aug 2006 at 11:35

d.chatten said:
You are the second person to post the same article as i posted in my first post to start this thread. LOL

what did you think the smiley was for

Kabaala · 26 Aug 2006 at 15:07

By the looks of it the multi for 6300 and 6400 is only unlockable downwards.

Graeme43 · 26 Aug 2006 at 15:37

I doubt it but I would be totally amazed if my E6600 becomes unlocked soon on P5W

d.chatten · 4 Oct 2006 at 02:26

Well Asus finaly did it, multi unlock for conroe on P5W DH Deluxe 975X with the release bios 1407, it's now available on the Asus support website and FTP site, link to FTP download below.

Asus P5W DH Deluxe bios 1407

Sir Random · 4 Oct 2006 at 03:20

Thanks for the heads up!

Gonna have some fun playing with this tomorrow... 500x6 for 3Ghz anyone??

It'll be interesting to know the fsb limit of the mobo.

Devious · 4 Oct 2006 at 07:13

d.chatten said:
Well Asus finaly did it, multi unlock for conroe on P5W DH Deluxe 975X with the release bios 1407, it's now available on the Asus support website and FTP site, link to FTP download below.

Asus P5W DH Deluxe bios 1407

Id be suprised it it did as there a 3 page thread about this bios on XS and not one mention about unlocked multis.

d.chatten · 4 Oct 2006 at 08:17

Devious said:
Id be suprised it it did as there a 3 page thread about this bios on XS and not one mention about unlocked multis.

I've upgraded my bios to this new 1407 and believe me, it has unlocked multi downward (6 > 9) on my P5W DH Deluxe and retail E6600, the option in the bios is under "CPU Configuration".

stoofa · 4 Oct 2006 at 10:01

This really does go to show that when two companies get their heads together they can really get publicity they don't deserve.
This whole thing came to light over a month ago when ASUS came out with this claim that their new BIOS allowed multiplyer unlock.
Anandtech jumped all over it, told us all how amazing this was and then told us that not a single tested CPU could be clocked upwards.

So here we are with literally thousands of Conroe CPU's in peoples machines.
Many of these powered by ASUS motherboards and so far not a single person has reported that their CPU can magically be clocked upwards.
All ASUS have done is allowed you to clock downwards - something that other manufacturers have already been able to do without the song & dance.

As with late P2's, P3's and P4's the multiplyers are locked and everything cut so there is no magically getting an upwards movement on the multiplyer.
The only excepts to this are on some ES and the X6800.

Devious · 4 Oct 2006 at 10:27

d.chatten said:
I've upgraded my bios to this new 1407 and believe me, it has unlocked multi downward (6 > 9) on my P5W DH Deluxe and retail E6600, the option in the bios is under "CPU Configuration".

1405 did downwards unlocks. We want upwards.

w3bbo · 4 Oct 2006 at 10:57

Devious said:
1405 did downwards unlocks. We want upwards.

Yup, a downward multi isn't of much use tbh. More memory options would be nice too

Durzel · 4 Oct 2006 at 11:39

You're not going to get unlocked multipliers upwards on non-XE chips.

Given that unlocking downwards is just a BIOS fudge of the same register that Speedstep changes to lower the multi on the fly.

There won't be unlocking upwards (beyond the set multiplier of the chip) on any retail chip other than XEs. If there is, I will go out and buy a hat - and then eat it.