Unlock 4th core amd athlon ii x3 help

N1kosBond

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My CPU is an AMD Athlon ii x3 2.9Ghz, and I read in many sites that there is a fourth core and some L3 cache I can unlock from the bios.

I dont know anything about bios overclocking,tweaking and similar stuff but I read acticles,disguasions,I watched videos and the option that was supposed to be there,it just isnt and my whole M.I.T. menu is different
Then I downloaded easy tune 6 that was also supposed to have a core boost tab, but thats missing too

So the problem is that my motherbord doesnt support this feature, do I need driver update or something,does it have to do with the mobos chip?

My mb is a Gigabyte M52L-S3P with an NVIDIA® nForce 520LE chipset (and if I got it right from the et6 my bios version is F5)

Also, could you send my some articles about chipsets(generally everything about them)I want to learn whats going on with them,what chips are compatible with what CPUS etc

Thanks in advance
 
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It could be different BIOS versions. You could be using an older model or perhaps your particular model of motherboard simply doesn't offer that feature.

DHFF

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I would recommend against it. Unlocking a core has some rewards in that you gain an extra core and some cache. However there are also significant risks as Manufacturers usually lock down cores because they are defective or unstable. They will start with stamping out all X4 chips and during the process some of those will have only 2 or 3 cores that meet the standards to ship out, those chips have the defective cores locked and said chip is marketed as an X2 or X3 chip.

If this is virgin ground for you then I would suggest not playing around with cores that could be damaged.
 

N1kosBond

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Ok I will follow your advise, but still this doesnt solve the problem that there is nowhere available a way to unlock the hidden core
My bios options are no the same as the other gigabyte mobos I saw on youtube

So is that because of the chipset or mobo or something else?