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tried unlocking...failed so ive oc'd?

lee20010

lee20010

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Got the AMD 550 Black edition off a mate, I enable ACC in the bios but it never seems to unlock despite it working on another board. Seeing as my board only handles 95w, when it unlocks, it requires 125w. Would that stop the 2 extra cores being enabled. Cpu-z updates to X4 tho it says 2 cores...

At the moment I've overclocked it as 2 cores to this. Wondering if it sounds fine?

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1984290
 
i remember reading here the other day. you need to up the core volts too (if you havent done already) but yes 4 cores requires 125w

keep trying!
 
Mobo wont let me go above 95w grrr! No wonder eh! I'm playing with overclocks so far, from 3.1ghz to 3.77, running prime hitting 45c load temp on a £13 cooler lol.. Want 4 cores tho
 
if the cpuz shows that its an X4 then that should be a successful unlock, i believe in that situation you need to go to msconfig and set one of the options (believe its 'number of processors' or something to that description) so that windows recognises all four cores. At the moment, windows is used to two so despite being presented with four, its sticking with two untill you tell it otherwise. You'll have to google for more precise info as im a little rusty on unlocking.

However, personally i would not risk it if your board is only rated for 95w. Its rated like that for a reason...
 
thingemajib said:
if the cpuz shows that its an X4 then that should be a successful unlock, i believe in that situation you need to go to msconfig and set one of the options (believe its 'number of processors' or something to that description) so that windows recognises all four cores. At the moment, windows is used to two so despite being presented with four, its sticking with two untill you tell it otherwise. You'll have to google for more precise info as im a little rusty on unlocking.

However, personally i would not risk it if your board is only rated for 95w. Its rated like that for a reason...
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My mate said something similar, however would that affect cpu-z, dxdiag and task manager?
 
lee20010 said:
Mobo wont let me go above 95w grrr! No wonder eh! I'm playing with overclocks so far, from 3.1ghz to 3.77, running prime hitting 45c load temp on a £13 cooler lol.. Want 4 cores tho
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It's not that your board won't let you go above 95W (it's TDP so quite irrelevant) but it is rated at that because it won't supply enough power required for quad core CPUs.

You might try it anyway but it would be safer if you locked one of the cores and overclock it from there but, to put it simply, you're screwed since overclocking increases power requirements even more if you unlocked the cores.

On the two MSI boards I successfully unlocked two X2 555s, there wasn't anything I had to change in the OS.

What is your motherboard?
 
lee20010 said:
But the board supports 95w version of hex core 1055t
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But it still only suports 95W processors.

If there was such a thing as a 95W 12 core processor it might support it.

If there was such a thing as a 125W single core processor it wouldn't support it.

The number of cores is irrelevant.

The motherboard only supports up to 95W processors regardless of the number of cores.
 
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