Flashing Bios

[Queelis]

Think it's worth trying to lower the vcore a bit queelis? I don't want it to freak out on me, it's at 1.37 where I whacked it for the sake of eliminating that as an issue but irrc the vid of the chip is 1.3 so with an extra core and cache I thought it best to be safe rather than sorry

Well, the only thing to be sorry about would be a lost WU - you decide just how sensitive you'd be about that Otherwise, why not, just find out what vcore the unlocked CPU is stable at and stick with that.

In my experience, it is possible that future folding clients will make that lower voltage unstable so you may need to kick it up in the future (happened to me going from 6.27 to 6.30 SMP client).

[nibbler]

Last time it was stable for 8 hours then when I started messing with voltage and multipliers it decided it had had enough. Gonna leave it for now.

[Sputnik]

How come a BIOS flash unlocked those?

Some boards original BIOS did not allow it to unlock, Like my board. When I tried to enable ACC the machine would just switch off before the BIOS screen showed and the only way to get it to run was to clear the BIOS again.

They did make a new BIOS version for my board to unlock the extra cores but, I'd long given up by then so did not try it.

[nibbler]

Give it a shot. I only tried it for fun and it worked Stable for 5 odd days now.