It has long been known that AMD’s tri-core Phenom X3 series contained a fourth processing core that was, for whatever reason, disabled at the factory. What enthusiasts have not been privy to, however, is just how “disabled” that core really is. Apparently the answer is “not very.”
Overseas tech site Playwares has discovered that one Biostar motherboard is capable of breathing life into that fourth core with the adjustment of an innocent BIOS setting.
This is the modern day equivalent of Athlon XP bridge manipulation. Something tells us that motherboard manufacturers are about to go ballistic with this “feature” before AMD heads them off at the pass.
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