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

[dieg0]

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?

C3 batch 1046

[Dark Mantis]

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.

Yes I was hopping that even the 64GB cache would have made a bigger difference than it did, as it was the difference between the SATA2 and SATA3 drives is negligable. Still I am hoping to test them out on a new P67 board shortly and will be able to see if Gigabyte has made a better job of implimenting the Marvell chip now with more experience to call on.

[dieg0]

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.

Yes I was hopping that even the 64GB cache would have made a bigger difference than it did, as it was the difference between the SATA2 and SATA3 drives is negligable. Still I am hoping to test them out on a new P67 board shortly and will be able to see if Gigabyte has made a better job of implimenting the Marvell chip now with more experience to call on.

hello, a question Dark Mantis, to put the disks in raid 0 has to be the entire hard drive or I can make 4 partitions on the same disc and just put 2 partitions on raid0, one hard disk clear, thanks in advance.

[Dark Mantis]

Hi dieg0

No you would need to use the full hard disk because it wouldn't be accessible apart from the RAID that you would configure. I am no expert when it comes to RAID but I am sure someone will soon jump in if I am wrong.

[dieg0]

Hi dieg0

No you would need to use the full hard disk because it wouldn't be accessible apart from the RAID that you would configure. I am no expert when it comes to RAID but I am sure someone will soon jump in if I am wrong.

ok thanks, I'll investigate a little more

[r3xR0xuK2YlZFM]

Wish I had seen this thread last week when I was deciding between this motherboard and a comparable Asus one.

I have the Phenom II 560 BE, but the same problems. Only two cores show up in the bios (F7) and when I enable the unlock feature, save and restart, the computer won't post. It eventually comes back on with the message that the computer is unstable because of overclocking.

[dieg0]

Wish I had seen this thread last week when I was deciding between this motherboard and a comparable Asus one.

I have the Phenom II 560 BE, but the same problems. Only two cores show up in the bios (F7) and when I enable the unlock feature, save and restart, the computer won't post. It eventually comes back on with the message that the computer is unstable because of overclocking.

r3xR0xuK2YlZFM hello, I welcome you to the club, I'm just like you! but with the 555 be, and these people gigabyte has no intention of fixing their problems with the release, I personally tried a Asus Evo and unlock the first, and the 880ga no way, I've tried everything, up voltages , lower speeds and multipliers, probe disconnecting hard drives, I hurried to change the power source (the change but thought later), I changed all the parameters of the bios, I tried all BIOS versions in order everything that happened to me, and nothing, and the worst is that of the service shop look like a broken record just know that your Amd 555be is of poor quality (better than the more powerful) but phenom is poor ? is the highest number of AMD! the only thing that is of poor quality is the technology cores unlock 8xx series and their desire to work to fix the problem which we pay users like you and me, if you can test your phenom Be on another plate to see if you unlocked and tell us, greetings

[runn3R]

Hi dieg0

I will ask our Spanish branch to help you if possible.

[j5]

Wish I had seen this thread last week when I was deciding between this motherboard and a comparable Asus one.

I have the Phenom II 560 BE, but the same problems. Only two cores show up in the bios (F7) and when I enable the unlock feature, save and restart, the computer won't post. It eventually comes back on with the message that the computer is unstable because of overclocking.

Did you try the manual selection of cores instead of automatic?

[dieg0]

Hi dieg0

I will ask our Spanish branch to help you if possible.

ok thanks runn3R

[dieg0]

Wish I had seen this thread last week when I was deciding between this motherboard and a comparable Asus one.

I have the Phenom II 560 BE, but the same problems. Only two cores show up in the bios (F7) and when I enable the unlock feature, save and restart, the computer won't post. It eventually comes back on with the message that the computer is unstable because of overclocking.

Did you try the manual selection of cores instead of automatic?

Hi, the problem is not put in manual! 10000 times I will have tried in every possible way! nuclei not read hidden! that is the problem and begin to suspect that just makes the black edition. So you can be poblem of programming to unlock when the black edition nuclei because of the multiplier released or what is different from the normal phenom and give some problems. It is my opinion!from what I've seen toquiteando everything! and it is strange that everyone who happens to be black edition, right? greetings

[Beekeeper]

it may sound strange or even stupid but have you tried with the first bios for your mobo?
as sometimes it may happen that function which worked ok in old bios doesn't work in the new one.

[j5]

@Dieg0:
The only reason I questioned manual mode was because myxlplyx machine failed to post and gave a message of instability. I'm not sure about your condition, but in mine the extra cores are never detected and the machine boots as if core unlock never existed.

cheers.

[dieg0]

it may sound strange or even stupid but have you tried with the first bios for your mobo?
as sometimes it may happen that function which worked ok in old bios doesn't work in the new one.

Hi  Beekeeper ,  I tested with bios f3, f4, f5, f6 and f7 and is not about no! I have tried everything possible! good unless the plate throwing out the window!  

[dieg0]

@Dieg0:
The only reason I questioned manual mode was because myxlplyx machine failed to post and gave a message of instability. I'm not sure about your condition, but in mine the extra cores are never detected and the machine boots as if core unlock never existed.

cheers.

Hello, you tried your processor in another board to see if it unlocks? if you can do it! to me what gets caught is when you unlock, it goes black and goes crazy katana3 (I control it with speedfan, not the motherboard!) I change the font so it seemed that he needed to stress, but subi will voltages and the same, I even change the font to a better, more powerful and nothing (to me but no longer thought to change), I removed the hard disks (for if w7 64 and the same), I've played all possible to the bios and nothing, take the mike and put it back in the socket about 10 times and nothing, remove the poor graphics and integrated with anything, remove the ram about 10 times and nothing, etc etc. I've done all I could think! And in an Evo Asus socket and placed in the first release.