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[Solved]Unlocking and overclocking a 960T on M5a99x EVO

post #1 of 5
11/7/12 at 3:55pm
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Hey everyone

Ive recently brought a new M5a99x EVO as recommended by overclock.net members as an upgrade to my old m4n68t-m v2 that i was using to unlock and overclock my Phenom II x4 960T. It seems im now unable to overclock at all when unlocked to x6 on the new board. When on the old one it would unlock and easily overclock to 3.6ghz. On the new one when i apply the overclock and restart the pc boots but the display is blank, i have to remove the cmos battery in order to be able to boot again.

Right now ive kept the cores locked and overclocked to 4ghz stable so i feel I might be running into the PSU not supplying enough power for the extra two cores.(I am going to upgrade the PSU when i can afford it) would the new motherboard use more power then the old one enough to make a difference?

Any help is much appreciated!

EDIT: No idea what I did but now im unlocked to x6 at 3.8Ghz smile.gif
Edited by JoinTheRealms - 11/7/12 at 7:24pm
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post #2 of 5
11/8/12 at 8:55pm
Could you tell me what revision of the M5a99x EVO board you have?

I'm asking because I tried an Asus M5A99FX Pro 2.0 board a couple days ago and it wouldn't unlock my Phenom II X2 550BE. There was simply no option for core unlocking anywhere in the bios! I know the M5a99x EVO is probably very similar in many ways, so just wondering. The other strange thing is my Gigabyte Windforce 7950 card, which is flashed with a Gigabyte 7970 bios to run at 1000MHz core/1375MHz memory wouldn't boot at all on this Asus board. I had to switch the bios to the original 900MHz one to even post. It's really too bad, because I really liked the Asus board a lot. Northbridge was nice and cool, unlike the Gigabyte 990FX-UD3 returned today, but at least the Gigabyte board unlocked my cores. Only thing is, it corrupted my Windows 7 setup!

Now I'm back on my trusty old Gigabyte GA-790X-UD4P with my Phenom II X2 unlocked to 4 cores and 3.8GHz overclock again, and wondering which motherboard to get to run an 8320 or 8350 Piledriver with my graphics card.

Thanks for info in advance!
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post #3 of 5
11/8/12 at 10:03pm
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Ive got the original one (not r2.0). Id be amazed if the M5a99FX PRO doesnt have an unlocking feature as its a higher end motherboard then mine (mine was under Advanced Mode\ Advanced\CPU Core On/Off Function), but if you are looking for a motherboard id certainly recommend this one, its been able to handle my 960T unlocked to x6 at 4ghz and im also a big fan of TurboV that allows overclocking inside of windows.
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post #4 of 5
11/10/12 at 1:49pm
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Ive got the original one (not r2.0). Id be amazed if the M5a99FX PRO doesnt have an unlocking feature as its a higher end motherboard then mine (mine was under Advanced Mode\ Advanced\CPU Core On/Off Function), but if you are looking for a motherboard id certainly recommend this one, its been able to handle my 960T unlocked to x6 at 4ghz and im also a big fan of TurboV that allows overclocking inside of windows.
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Ive got the original one (not r2.0). Id be amazed if the M5a99FX PRO doesnt have an unlocking feature as its a higher end motherboard then mine.

Yes. I was surprised, too, but it did not have an unlock option anywhere in the bios; not with the bios it came with, nor the latest bios.
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post #5 of 5
1/27/13 at 11:26pm
Hate to bring back an old thread but the R 1.0 certainly does have a core unlocking feature... the R 2.0 uses the same BIOS and also advertises the core unlocking feature - there were only very minor changes made to the board layout itself with the R 2.0 revision and they had nothing to do with the core unlocking feature.

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