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Help with unlocking cores on ASRock AM3+ boards.

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darkswordsman17

Lifer
Ok, bought an ASRock 880G Pro3 board and am trying to see if I can unlock any cores (X2 555), but I'm not having much luck. In the BIOS, the only option I see is to enable or disable UCC, but there's no indication that its doing anything and it never unlocked any cores according to CPU-Z.

Supposedly the board supports Turbo UCC, but there's no mention of it in the BIOS or the manuals that I can tell. The only place is their website, and all it says is to press X when booting and then the system will reboot and try to do that, but pressing X doesn't do anything (no reboot or anything else).

Anyone know what to do to unlock on these boards?

Other than that and their install CD, it seems to be a great board, no problems, boots fast, lots of fan headers, CPU socket is far enough from the RAM slots that even with a Hyper 212 with fan on you can access all 4 slots.
 
This may get you going:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2927

I know very little about it the whole thing, but I'm going to presume that the AMD SB850 supports it. Not sure, as this article was written in 1/10, and I assume that preceded the release of your motherboard's chipset.

Edit: nevermind your mb definitely supports it, UCC is core unlocking. (UCC stands for unlocking cpu core.)
 
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I contacted ASRock about getting directions. They responded to me, but just gave me the disclaimer about unlocking not guaranteed to work and then sent me a link that shows how to do it on other boards (non-UEFI based ones), which doesn't help, so I'm waiting to see if they can provide directions for these new ones specifically.
 
I guess I'll just assume it can't unlock, although I have a suspicion that it might just be the board not handling it right. I can enable a core management in the BIOS, and if I disable Core 1 (which is actually the second core, with the first being Core 0), it fails booting and gives a C1 on the Dr Debug option. I'm not sure if CX where the X is the core #, but if that is the case and it fails C4 when trying to unlock, that would be the fifth core, which obviously an X2 would not unlock to. I also updated to the latest BIOS version, and it didn't change anything.

Also, no help about Turbo UCC function, I really don't think this board supports it (there is literally nothing in the manual or BIOS, and from what I can tell, their other boards that support it will actually have a boot screen saying its enabled when you press X, but that doesn't do anything on this board), so that's somewhat irritating. It seems to be a great board otherwise, guess I'll find out how it handles Bulldozer.
 
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