unlocking a core i3

[Lil Chillbil]

so my friend ian recently contacted me that his i3 rig he built around the same time I was building mine. Is slow as heck for his video editing and battlefield 3 playing... he doesn't even want to think how awful the system will handle battlefield 4. Anyways he wants to unlock his mobo and processor... I told him he's nuts and he should of just been patient and waited till he had enough to buy a i5 for his rig.

 

 

 

specs of rig

Core i3 3220.3.3Ghz

4gb DDR3 1333Mhz

350 watt psu

gtx 650

 

 

 

[Glenwing]

If they don't have an unlocked multiplier then there is no way to unlock it on your own.  The necessary stuff is fused off the die.  Likewise with the additional cores.

[TechFan@ic]

An i3 3220 can be overclocked by up to 400mhz, but the multiplier will remain locked.

[Cryptonite]

so my friend ian recently contacted me that his i3 rig he built around the same time I was building mine. Is slow as heck for his video editing and battlefield 3 playing... he doesn't even want to think how awful the system will handle battlefield 4. Anyways he wants to unlock his mobo and processor... I told him he's nuts and he should of just been patient and waited till he had enough to buy a i5 for his rig.

 

 

 

specs of rig

Core i3 3220.3.3Ghz

4gb DDR3 1333Mhz

350 watt psu

gtx 650

getting an i3 you should know you won't be able to overclock. if it's too slow for his needs he needs to sell it and get an i5 "K" version for overclocking.

[Kuzma]

It's not possible :p theres no such thing as "core unlocking" so to speak.

[Lil Chillbil]

Thankyou for agreeing with me, hes a nutcase who things he can take a soldering iron and pop off the top of his i3 and go to town unlocking all the soldered off cores

 

 

will surely make a video of his stuipidity...

[Kuzma]

Thankyou for agreeing with me, hes a nutcase who things he can take a soldering iron and pop off the top of his i3 and go to town unlocking all the soldered off cores

 

 

will surely make a video of his stuipidity...

Omg what?! ,_, that is the craziest thing I have ever heard.

[3DDude]

Thankyou for agreeing with me, hes a nutcase who things he can take a soldering iron and pop off the top of his i3 and go to town unlocking all the soldered off cores

 

 

will surely make a video of his stuipidity...

 

 

Thats brilliant please post a video of his attempt to do that :P

[MrSuperb]

so my friend ian recently contacted me that his i3 rig he built around the same time I was building mine. Is slow as heck for his video editing and battlefield 3 playing... he doesn't even want to think how awful the system will handle battlefield 4.

 

The poor gaming performance probably relates to the gtx 650.

The poor video editing performance probably relates to the 4GB of Ram.

 

The i3 3220 has plenty of power ...

 

Get more ram and a better graphics card!

[YellowDragon]

It's not possible :P theres no such thing as "core unlocking" so to speak.

Actually there "was" core unlocking, the AM3 platform had the Phenom II chips where most of the chips were based off one die and binned accordingly, cores were disabled via software instead of fused off the die, a motherboard with the right feature set could override this and try to unlock the locked down cores, however then it was up to luck whether you got a boss chip for dirt cheap. the same thing happened with the 6000 series of gpus I believe where you could flash the bios of a lower model and end up with a top tier card. AMD and intel have wised up and have now fused cores and circuitry off the chip to prevent this. 

[LegendKillerRG]

The poor gaming performance probably relates to the gtx 650.

The poor video editing performance probably relates to the 4GB of Ram.

 

The i3 3220 has plenty of power ...

 

Get more ram and a better graphics card!

Gaming is CPU intensive too especially on BF3, check here 

Video Editing involves A LOT on CPU, not RAM by much...

[Kuzma]

Actually there "was" core unlocking, the AM3 platform had the Phenom II chips where most of the chips were based off one die and binned accordingly, cores were disabled via software instead of fused off the die, a motherboard with the right feature set could override this and try to unlock the locked down cores, however then it was up to luck whether you got a boss chip for dirt cheap. the same thing happened with the 6000 series of gpus I believe where you could flash the bios of a lower model and end up with a top tier card. AMD and intel have wised up and have now fused cores and circuitry off the chip to prevent this. 

I know about AMD core unlocking but not for intel.

[Leonard]

Thankyou for agreeing with me, hes a nutcase who things he can take a soldering iron and pop off the top of his i3 and go to town unlocking all the soldered off cores

 

 

will surely make a video of his stuipidity...

Make sure to post it on youtube with a catchy name, it just might go viral  :lol:. What do you mean by unlocking the motherboard? What is his motherboard? 

[FireFox]

An i3 3220 can be overclocked by up to 400mhz, but the multiplier will remain locked.

 

Really, thought they couldn't go much higher than 200MHz?

[Lil Chillbil]

Make sure to post it on youtube with a catchy name, it just might go viral  :lol:. What do you mean by unlocking the motherboard? What is his motherboard? 

 

 

I honestly have no clue, its like an off brand type board...

 

 

time to rent the red dragon camcorder LOL he says he's doing it tonight during our lan party...

[gibbsy81]

Tellhim there is 1 wire he needs to solder and that he needs to Pull the top off then if his stupid enough video it

[5lay3r]

he could always go old school and pin mod to change the multiplier dont know if u can on the modern cpus but ive done 775 dual cores

[KneesWeak]

so my friend ian recently contacted me that his i3 rig he built around the same time I was building mine. Is slow as heck for his video editing and battlefield 3 playing... he doesn't even want to think how awful the system will handle battlefield 4. Anyways he wants to unlock his mobo and processor... I told him he's nuts and he should of just been patient and waited till he had enough to buy a i5 for his rig.

 

 

 

specs of rig

Core i3 3220.3.3Ghz

4gb DDR3 1333Mhz

350 watt psu

gtx 650

lol his cpu is fine, it'd help if he had around 8 gigs a ram and a higher wattage/better psu and a better gpu, he should pick up a 7870 or gtx 760, He really cant unlock the mobo or cpu, especially both.  Not worth the trouble

[Lil Chillbil]

so it looks like he came to his senses, we all started playing modern warfare and his pc ran it fine...

[DanielVonCalabrese]

On 7/31/2013 at 2:33 PM, LegendKillerRG said:

Gaming is CPU intensive too especially on BF3, check here 

Video Editing involves A LOT on CPU, not RAM by much...

 

Helloo...master professor...Gaming isn't so CPU intensive even in 2016. Battlefield 3 is inappropriate example for the impact of CPU in gaming. Battlefield 3 uses 4+ cores/threats, this doesn't means i3 3220 can't manage it.The role of CPU in gaming is mostly for physics and AI + managing the response, sending instructions to GPU to render the next frame and other different calculations. i3 3220 may only have issues in multiplayer with 64 players.

 

"Video Editing involves A LOT on CPU" - yes, but unless the data is loaded in RAM, the speed and size of RAM is involved A LOT too, master professor...