Mainboard Makers Promise to Enable Additional Cores on Future Quad-Core AMD Chips

From X-bit Labs: In a bid to attract enthusiasts to their products, Asrock and Asustek Computer will implement a special capability that will allow to turn on disabled processing engines on the forthcoming quad-core AMD Phenom II 960T processors, effectively transforming them into six-core microprocessors.

For years manufacturers of mainboards competed with each other in terms of the best overclocking capabilities of their platforms. However, the emergence of multi-core central processing units (CPUs) some mainboards started to provide abilities to re-enable cores that were disabled by chipmakers. Apparently, the latest and forthcoming mainboards from Asrock and Asustek Computer – based on AMD 800-series chipsets – will be able to turn on the disabled cores of code-named Zosma processors – the quad-core chips that are based on the code-named Thuban design, the chip that has six cores.

Asrock, the company originally found to make inexpensive solutions for Asustek Computer, recently officially said that select AMD 800-series chipsets-based mainboards will feature Unlock CPU Core (UCC) technology, which will allow end-users to re-enable additional cores on Zosma processors.

“How many cores do you desire? The answer must be “as many as possible”. […] Asrock has exclusively equipped [select motherboards with] UCC function in the BIOS […] to unlock the mind-blowing performance of AMD’s upcoming PhenomII X4 960T CPU. Just a simple switch of the BIOS option ‘UCC’, users can unlock the extra CPU cored to enjoy an instant performance boost,” a statement by Asrock reads.

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