How to unlock AMD Athlon II x3 450 to 4th core

[NoisyBoy]

Hey, I've purchased a new PC with a AMD Athlon II x3 450 CPU and I really want to check my luck and see if I can unlock to the 4th core and more exactly to AMD Phenom B50. The name of my mainboard is ECS A780LM-M2 (I heard it got a special function to unlock 4th core) and when I restart my PC and I press Delete it appears a CMOS mainboard utility ,not BIOS or other thing. So please tell if I can unlock my AMD Athlon processor to a AMD Phenom quadcore, if yes, how ? Thanks for attention.

 

[jay_nar2012]

http/eudownload.ecs.com.tw/dlfileecs/manual/mb/A780LM-M2/A780LM-M2%20_manual.pdf

 

[NoisyBoy]

I read it at the CMOS section ,still not finding out how to unlock the 4th core

 

[womble]

Been a while since I unlocked a core, is it under the ACC menu?

 

[NoisyBoy]

Well, I don't really know ,all I know that when I restart my PC and press Delete I'll go in CMOS Menu ,and the only section to change CPU setting is a section named CPU Voltage Control or something like that...

 

[womble]

Just had a quick look at the manual and can't see it myself, I think ECS used to have a section called motherboard intelligent tweaking or something like that. Oddly enough the features section on the website mentions the ACC control option. Perhaps it is enabled in a later BIOS update? Could always submit a query to them to make it clear, they have a question submission form, hopefully they'll respond.

Good luck with it.

 

[tihutch]

hey, i have the same mother board and just unlocked my fourth core! what you do is restart the computer, press DEL, frequency/voltage control, advanced clock calibration, save and exit. then you should have a quad core processor.. tell me if it worked.