Unlocking

[Jedireaper]

How do you unlock processors so you can have the extra cores?

[topdog]

Enter BIOS.
Set Automatic Clock Calibration (ACC) or Nvidia Core Calibration (NCC) to AUTO.
CRUCIAL step for Asus and Gigabyte owners : Enable "Unleashing" or change "EC Firmware" mode to "Hybrid"
Reboot.
If it was successful, your processor should have a new designation starting with X4

[RDRUNR]

Good luck with unlocking it, it doesn't work on ALL AMD's, remember AMD most likely disabled those extra core(s) because they were defective.