On Monday 17 January 2011 15:13:54 Jason Weisberger wrote: > As he said in the previous message, there are almost never changelogs for > microcode updates. > > I do, however, have to disagree with *never* disabling microcode updates. > If I recall properly, the AMD Phenom II 720 was able to be unlocked to 4 > cores via a misconfiguration that enabled it with ACC. AMD later corrected > this issue with a microcode update. True, some motherboards worked around > that fix a different way, but if you had a first gen board with ACC support > you *had* to have the old microcode for it to work. The update killed your > free core :)
a 'free core' that is probably broken in mysterious and hard to find but nonetheless very dangerous ways. Thanks.
