ASRock, the more affordable face of Asus has prepared a nice treat that will surely prove to be a hit with those that are running on tighter budgets. The treat comes under the name UCC chip – an acronym for Unlock CPU Core and, as the name suggests, it is used to turn your AMD triple core CPUs into full fledged quad cores saving you some nice cash in the process.

The guys have been kind enough to show us the procedure, which is extremely simple, thanks to the UCC chip. All you have to do is enter BIOS upon booting your computer and hit enter on one of the options, and you’ve got yourself a quad.

We’ve been told that this chip will find its way to entry level boards as well, which means you can get a decent quad core setup for much less money. Furthermore, the chip reportedly runs just fine with Nvidia chipsets and the N68-S3 board you see will soon get a version with a –UCC moniker which will naturally come with the UCC chip.

We've taken a few shots showing the "triple core" happily running with four cores. The motherboard in question is based on AMD's latest offering, 890GX chipset and the CPU is Phenom II X3 720.










The UCC chip is the one on the right.


This board will soon get a UCC version.