GA-880GA-UD3H - unlock cores on Phenom II 555 BE

[jcage]

Well I'm going to send it back then and buy something else (the seller will pay it ofcaurse because he told me that this mobo can unlock the 555).
and before Ill do tha Im going to call Gigabyte...

[dieg0]

Well I'm going to send it back then and buy something else (the seller will pay it ofcaurse because he told me that this mobo can unlock the 555).
and before Ill do tha Im going to call Gigabyte...

hello, if I could also the exchange and yet I have some time, and later to try the 555 on the Asus Evo too, thinking that I play one of two cores, and changing it to tell us if you unlock

[jcage]

Well I'm going to send it back then and buy something else (the seller will pay it ofcaurse because he told me that this mobo can unlock the 555).
and before Ill do tha Im going to call Gigabyte...

hello, if I could also the exchange and yet I have some time, and later to try the 555 on the Asus Evo too, thinking that I play one of two cores, and changing it to tell us if you unlock

well I got from a friend the Asus Evo m/b and i was able to unlock all the 4 cores, the systems looks stable, I didn't notice anything strange..
Now I'm waiting from the shop to bring the same mobo to give them mine back...
(I hope next week I will be able to make ferther testing)

[proxy]

Alright, here's the update.  Got my hands on the GA-880GA-UD3H Rev 2.0 board today.  Flashed it to F7 BIOS and still no luck unlocking the cores on the 555BE that's on it, which I will now refer to as Igor.

Swapped Igor with the 555BE I've lovingly named Betsy, which unlocks all cores on an Asus M4A89GTD Pro USB3, and as a x2 OCs to 4.0GHz on stock, a x4 to 3.8GHz on stock, and as a x4 to 4.0GHz with a VCore bump to 1.40V (1.42V with load line calibration).

Igor was very problematic on the M4A89GTD, the auto-unlock struggled.  Eventually I managed to unlock 1 extra core, but only after underclocking to 2.7GHz.  Not a very good bin I guess.  Even then I wasn't quite stable in Windows 7 64 bit but I didn't bother to do a full battery of tests and fiddle with it too much.

Betsy went into the GA-880GA-UD3H and after enabling core unlock, 3 reboots, and a reset, success!  4 Cores stable at stock.  Currently in the process of running OCCT overnight at x4 with VCore 1.4V (1.408V with LLC) @ 4.0GHz.

So I'm going to hypothesize here that the Asus boards just do a better job of unlocking low bin CPUs than the Gigabytes (at least on the new 8xx chipsets), and they both seem to do a decent job on higher bin CPUs.

[proxy]

Update: 555 BE 4 Cores (unlocked) at 4 (4.0176) GHz with VCore of 1.40V (1.408) passed 14 hours on OCCT v3.1.0.  Continuing with further testing.

Meanwhile I've started retesting the other (read different) 555 BE that wouldn't unlock on the GA-880GA-UD3H, on the M4A89GTD, it seems fine at 2.7 GHz with a VCore of 1.415V though it's only 20 minutes into OCCT.  With only 2 cores enabled previously and testing with strictly multiplier overclocking, I was only able to get it to boot to Windows 7 64 bit at 3.6 GHz which seemed flakey, I'd guess it could only do 3.4-3.5 on the multi alone.

I think Giga just doesn't like Igor, since the Asus doesn't seem to like him much either, although Asus seems to be giving him more love.

[Dark Mantis]

Personally I would be interested in what Absic had to say if he could try one of these boards out with a compatible CPU. 

[absic]

Hi,

I have been in contact with Gigabyte UK about the issues with core unlocking as I too have encountered problems. I am still waiting for their reply and as my old mum says: "If you haven't got anything useful to say, don't say anything." Hence the lack of input, regarding this thread.

Yes, there does seems to be a problem but I do not know what it is or, why it is proving so difficult to unlock what seem to be good cores, on these boards. I am doing what I can but, unfortunately my resources are limited so I can't invest in a 555 or other CPU's for testing fully. I have however, unlocked a Sempron 140 on a Biostar Motherboard which I can't unlock on the three different Gigabyte motherboards I have tried.

I am watching this thread closely and if/when I have some proper practical advice or a solution to this problem I will post it here.

[dieg0]

Hi,

I have been in contact with Gigabyte UK about the issues with core unlocking as I too have encountered problems. I am still waiting for their reply and as my old mum says: "If you haven't got anything useful to say, don't say anything." Hence the lack of input, regarding this thread.

Yes, there does seems to be a problem but I do not know what it is or, why it is proving so difficult to unlock what seem to be good cores, on these boards. I am doing what I can but, unfortunately my resources are limited so I can't invest in a 555 or other CPU's for testing fully. I have however, unlocked a Sempron 140 on a Biostar Motherboard which I can't unlock on the three different Gigabyte motherboards I have tried.

I am watching this thread closely and if/when I have some proper practical advice or a solution to this problem I will post it here.

Hello Absic , I if I said to my phenom 555be gigabyte is poor! and at no time admitted that the problem is yours! , She always blames my processor and AMD, but the reality is that my processor unlocks Asus perfect like other forum mates, greetings

[absic]

Hi Diego,

I understand your frustration and I am trying to find out why CPU's that can be easily unlocked on motherboards by other manufacturers can not be unlocked on Gigabyte motherboards.

As I said, I do not have the resources to experiment, although I have successfully unlocked a Sempron 140 on a rival motherboard but have been unable to on 3 different Gigabyte boards. I don't know why this is the case but, it could be that Gigabyte have a higher standard for Core Unlocking than other motherboard makers.

[dieg0]

Hi Diego,

I understand your frustration and I am trying to find out why CPU's that can be easily unlocked on motherboards by other manufacturers can not be unlocked on Gigabyte motherboards.

As I said, I do not have the resources to experiment, although I have successfully unlocked a Sempron 140 on a rival motherboard but have been unable to on 3 different Gigabyte boards. I don't know why this is the case but, it could be that Gigabyte have a higher standard for Core Unlocking than other motherboard makers.

Hello Absic , Hello, frustration is not the word! , If you buy a motherboard because it has a character and incredible technologies is then not work! gigabyte and above have the face to tell you that your AMD processor is poor! being the only thing that is poor management is the release of nuclei and technical service, and the worst is to not try to fix your bugs!

[Dark Mantis]

Hello Absic , Hello, frustration is not the word! , If you buy a motherboard because it has a character and incredible technologies is then not work! gigabyte and above have the face to tell you that your AMD processor is poor! being the only thing that is poor management is the release of nuclei and technical service, and the worst is to not try to fix your bugs!

Trust me dieg0, we have all been there and bought the T-shirt! Both absic and I got caught out with the SATA3 Marvell fiasco and were out of pocket over that.

[dieg0]

Hello Absic , Hello, frustration is not the word! , If you buy a motherboard because it has a character and incredible technologies is then not work! gigabyte and above have the face to tell you that your AMD processor is poor! being the only thing that is poor management is the release of nuclei and technical service, and the worst is to not try to fix your bugs!

Trust me dieg0, we have all been there and bought the T-shirt! Both absic and I got caught out with the SATA3 Marvell fiasco and were out of pocket over that.

Thanks Dark Mantis and company, but it's a bitch! if I have a 555be with only 2 cores for resignation, and I buy a two cores! But it is for the motherboard that advertise that unlocks hidden cores, and do not tell me but that's the fault of AMD that are of poor quality! The only thing that is of poor quality are eager to work and fix it! With hard drives SATA3 not even worth buying! is my opinion. You give me one more week I bought a samsung sprinpoint f3, I have another the same and I imagine that will raid0 worth?

[Dark Mantis]

Yes the Samsung Spinpoint F3s are great drives and good value too. No I am just running my WDs in RAID0 but at SATA2 speeds. They seem to be fine on that.

Hopefully the company will discover why the majority of the chips won't unlock and fix it.

[dieg0]

Yes the Samsung Spinpoint F3s are great drives and good value too. No I am just running my WDs in RAID0 but at SATA2 speeds. They seem to be fine on that.

Hopefully the company will discover why the majority of the chips won't unlock and fix it.

If I saw it in your summary of your PC, your PC doit être a missile! mine is more humble! but still overall I'm happy, except with the release of gigabyte! Hopefully it fixed! But they do not know what is wrong, I think the sensitivity can be read when hidden core Phenom series 2, or any failure or go promagramacion you to know! Because the 8xx chip also used by other manufacturers and their plates are unlocked perfectamente.No but it's frustrating.

[proxy]

DM, you had one of those Marvel 'middle-men' SATA3 boards?  Ouch.  I liked what I saw of the Samsung F3s, but ended up just using a large number of Hitachi 7K1000.C drives for builds, excellent performance : price ratio.  As for SATA3 vs SATA2, I've benched 2x WD1001FALS to 2x WD1002FAEX and I only saw fairly small differences, not enough to sway me to spend an extra $20 for a SATA3 drive.  I'll see if I can find some of the screencaps if I have any still and post them later.

Out or curiosity with everyone who's following this board with similar issues, what stepping / revision x2 555 processors do you have?