Core UNPARKING !.....Does it help?

[kizoku_95]

^^^^^^^^^^^^Should I do it or not ??

[Jeroen1322]

I've used to programs to unpark my cores but it didn't help.

[Lyons]

Apparently it does, give it a go a post results.

[kizoku_95]

Apparently it does, give it a go a post results.

Will let you know if I try it!!!

[brownninja97]

Helps in some programs and blue screens the hell out of others.

[Denned]

It'll help in CPU heavy applications. The more cores the application can utilize, the bigger difference you'll see.

[kizoku_95]

It'll help in CPU heavy applications. The more cores the application can utilize, the bigger difference you'll see.

Will it help in gaming?

[Lyons]

Will it help in gaming?

 

Only games that are multi-threaded like BF4, Crysis 3, etc.

[kizoku_95]

Only games that are multi-threaded like BF4, Crysis 3, etc.

I don't play these games anyway so I am not doing the core unparking thingy................. 

[Denned]

Will it help in gaming?

Yep. A game is just a specific kind of application. However the result might not be noticeable, if it's even there at all.

[kizoku_95]

Yep. A game is just a specific kind of application. However the result might not be noticeable, if it's even there at all.

Thanks for the info............I dumped my plan anyways!

[voaz]

I didn't notice anything at all ever.

[Priller]

For you yes.

 

With Windows 7 Pro it would park 4 out of 8 cores and I did see a performance increase in BF4. Chances are it is parking 3 of your 6 cores. You can look at Resource Monitor in Windows to see if it is parking cores or not as well.

 

Also dont use a program to unpark cores if you do decide to do so later on. Edit your registry manually and remember, write down, or save the steps on your computer and if it doesn't work then you can always go back and change it.

[flibberdipper]

Depends. If the locked cores are defective, it isn't (BSODs like crazy), if the cores are actually good, but disabled to be a lower end processor (like mine) then it is CERTAINLY worth it.

[old reece frost]

What is core unparking?

[Altecice]

What is core unparking?

 

Its when a CPU is sold as say.... a dual core but actually has 4 cores but two of them failed while testing/binning, Just a way for the company to sell a defective chip. Sometimes you can unpark them and the disabled cores aren't damaged at all.

[Madgemade]

Its when a CPU is sold as say.... a dual core but actually has 4 cores but two of them failed while testing/binning, Just a way for the company to sell a defective chip. Sometimes you can unpark them and the disabled cores aren't damaged at all.

Unless you are talking about bios mods etc then you are wrong as when people talk about core parking they usually mean the disabling of cores for power saving or some have claimed it is done to stop overheating. This is done by windows and involves only the number of cores that you have deteted.

Core unparking does little as when you are gaming and need more power they will normally unpark automaticlly.

If you are seroius about core unlocking then don't called it unparking as they are very different.

[flibberdipper]

Its when a CPU is sold as say.... a dual core but actually has 4 cores but two of them failed while testing/binning, Just a way for the company to sell a defective chip. Sometimes you can unpark them and the disabled cores aren't damaged at all.

Or sometimes they lock two cores on a quad core to sell it as a cheaper dual core.

[deathjester]

Of course it helps. Win 8.1 does it, which is why people are complaining about battery life on laptops/tablets.

 

On a brand new install of Win 7, 3 THREADS were ALWAYS parked on Planetside 2/BF4 on my I7.

 

On a desktop there is no downside to core unparking. Zero. 

 

On a laptop? Win 8.1 and unparking cores will both make the chip run hotter in an 8 thread game. This is why gaming laptops suck. On my desktop? I am at damn near idle temps in 8 thread games with cores unparked.

 

 

Helps in some programs and blue screens the hell out of others.

 

BS. You have two desktops. Unparking cores will not cause "blue screens".  The only way it would cause bluescreens is if you were on a "gaming laptop" and it ran too damn hot on 5 threads already on an I7.

 

There is no change in voltage, no change in temps and no change in anything from unparking cores except MUCH BETTER PERFORMANCE in games, specifically BF4 which MS is trying to use as a reason to get Win 8.1 because *shocker* Win 8.1 unparked cores.

 

The only thing there is a difference in is wattage and it is so small I can't even see the difference. It is probably pennies a year...

 

Press control alt del go to task manager, click performance, resource monitor click cpu. Start a game. If cores are PARKED in the game? Core unparking will help. Period. End of story. You do not need this on 8.1. You should not be running Win 8.0. This is for Win 7.

 

http://www.coderbag.com/Uploads/Unpark-CPU-App.zip

 

Unpark cores, reboot. Grats. You now beat Win 8.1 in everything cept BF4 and it is like 1 fps if that. Tweak BF4 a bit? Win 7 is slightly faster. If a win 8 install is faster then you old win 7 install, it is because you f'd up the win 7 install and it is full of bloat.

 

If your CPU wasn't parking cores to begin with? This won't help. Which is why you should check the game in task manager. This is more a fix for I7, AMD multicores then anything else. When you see people saying "disable HT in BF4"? Those people are morons. HT kicks @#% in BF4, and unparking cores will prevent lower cores from being asleep which has made I7 slightly slower in older 3 thread games. The games hitched a little bit going past lower cores that were asleep. 

 

The I7 is supposed to be 20 fps faster in BF4 then an I5, not the other way around.

[brownninja97]

Of course it helps. Win 8.1 does it, which is why people are complaining about battery life on laptops/tablets.

 

On a brand new install of Win 7, 3 THREADS were ALWAYS parked on Planetside 2/BF4 on my I7.

 

On a desktop there is no downside to core unparking. Zero. 

 

On a laptop? Win 8.1 and unparking cores will both make the chip run hotter in an 8 thread game. This is why gaming laptops suck. On my desktop? I am at damn near idle temps in 8 thread games with cores unparked.

 

 

 

BS. You have two desktops. Unparking cores will not cause "blue screens".  The only way it would cause bluescreens is if you were on a "gaming laptop" and it ran too damn hot on 5 threads already on an I7.

 

There is no change in voltage, no change in temps and no change in anything from unparking cores except MUCH BETTER PERFORMANCE in games, specifically BF4 which MS is trying to use as a reason to get Win 8.1 because *shocker* Win 8.1 unparked cores.

 

The only thing there is a difference in is wattage and it is so small I can't even see the difference. It is probably pennies a year...

 

Press control alt del go to task manager, click performance, resource monitor click cpu. Start a game. If cores are PARKED in the game? Core unparking will help. Period. End of story. You do not need this on 8.1. You should not be running Win 8.0. This is for Win 7.

 

http://www.coderbag.com/Uploads/Unpark-CPU-App.zip

 

Unpark cores, reboot. Grats. You now beat Win 8.1 in everything cept BF4 and it is like 1 fps if that. Tweak BF4 a bit? Win 7 is slightly faster. If a win 8 install is faster then you old win 7 install, it is because you f'd up the win 7 install and it is full of bloat.

 

If your CPU wasn't parking cores to begin with? This won't help. Which is why you should check the game in task manager. This is more a fix for I7, AMD multicores then anything else. When you see people saying "disable HT in BF4"? Those people are morons. HT kicks @#% in BF4, and unparking cores will prevent lower cores from being asleep which has made I7 slightly slower in older 3 thread games. The games hitched a little bit going past lower cores that were asleep. 

 

The I7 is supposed to be 20 fps faster in BF4 then an I5, not the other way around.

sorry but calm down, this is just my experience, i have not done it to the two pcs you see in the sig, ive got 5 pcs in our house and i tried unparking on that(i5 4570+6770) and it caused the above results. Problems occur sometimes for people but then are fine for others, problems can arise from seemingly nothing and could just go to confuse the hell of people as to why it happened. I could be an anomaly. Ive only done it with one pc, ive not done it to the editing pc as i dont game on that and this pc doesnt really need tuning, i dont play bf4 much anymore. I get over 60fps in the games i play so im happy.

[deathjester]

sorry but calm down, this is just my experience, i have not done it to the two pcs you see in the sig, ive got 5 pcs in our house and i tried unparking on that(i5 4570+6770) and it caused the above results. Problems occur sometimes for people but then are fine for others, problems can arise from seemingly nothing and could just go to confuse the hell of people as to why it happened. I could be an anomaly. Ive only done it with one pc, ive not done it to the editing pc as i dont game on that and this pc doesnt really need tuning, i dont play bf4 much anymore. I get over 60fps in the games i play so im happy.

 

Do you know how many BS artist MS employees I have ran into when it comes to unparking cores when 8.1 UNPARKS CORES. Your story is = to saying that Win 8.1 causes bluescreens on your computers.

 

Is core unparking something that helps an I7 and AMD chip more then an I5? Yup. Would using all 4 cores on an I5 cause bluescreens? Sorry that is impossible. You downloaded a virus or something, or edited the registry WRONG.

 

The program I linked does it for you and prevents people from typing in the wrong registry option. An I5 rarely if ever has cores unparked in any game which is why it was "benchmarked" to be slightly faster then an I7 in all older games, which should be impossible because the I7 has slightly higher FPU.

 

When unparking cores the I7 is ahead, even in older games, due to the game not having to skip past lower threads that are asleep. Win 8.1 took core parking out because the new chips are so good at power usage and downclocking, that it was a pointless feature. They then LIED and sold it as Windows 8.1 being "faster". It isn't. It is the same freakin kernel. 

 

http://www.coderbag.com/Uploads/Unpark-CPU-App.zip

 

Don't let the MS employees scare you. They have to sell Win 8 somehow...

[flibberdipper]

Of course it helps. Win 8.1 does it, which is why people are complaining about battery life on laptops/tablets.

 

On a brand new install of Win 7, 3 THREADS were ALWAYS parked on Planetside 2/BF4 on my I7.

 

On a desktop there is no downside to core unparking. Zero. 

 

On a laptop? Win 8.1 and unparking cores will both make the chip run hotter in an 8 thread game. This is why gaming laptops suck. On my desktop? I am at damn near idle temps in 8 thread games with cores unparked.

 

 

 

BS. You have two desktops. Unparking cores will not cause "blue screens".  The only way it would cause bluescreens is if you were on a "gaming laptop" and it ran too damn hot on 5 threads already on an I7.

 

There is no change in voltage, no change in temps and no change in anything from unparking cores except MUCH BETTER PERFORMANCE in games, specifically BF4 which MS is trying to use as a reason to get Win 8.1 because *shocker* Win 8.1 unparked cores.

 

The only thing there is a difference in is wattage and it is so small I can't even see the difference. It is probably pennies a year...

 

Press control alt del go to task manager, click performance, resource monitor click cpu. Start a game. If cores are PARKED in the game? Core unparking will help. Period. End of story. You do not need this on 8.1. You should not be running Win 8.0. This is for Win 7.

 

http://www.coderbag.com/Uploads/Unpark-CPU-App.zip

 

Unpark cores, reboot. Grats. You now beat Win 8.1 in everything cept BF4 and it is like 1 fps if that. Tweak BF4 a bit? Win 7 is slightly faster. If a win 8 install is faster then you old win 7 install, it is because you f'd up the win 7 install and it is full of bloat.

 

If your CPU wasn't parking cores to begin with? This won't help. Which is why you should check the game in task manager. This is more a fix for I7, AMD multicores then anything else. When you see people saying "disable HT in BF4"? Those people are morons. HT kicks @#% in BF4, and unparking cores will prevent lower cores from being asleep which has made I7 slightly slower in older 3 thread games. The games hitched a little bit going past lower cores that were asleep. 

 

The I7 is supposed to be 20 fps faster in BF4 then an I5, not the other way around.

I think he was thinking about unlocking cores, maybe.

[Madgemade]

BS. You have two desktops. Unparking cores will not cause "blue screens".  The only way it would cause bluescreens is if you were on a "gaming laptop" and it ran too damn hot on 5 threads already on an I7.

 

There is no change in voltage, no change in temps and no change in anything from unparking cores except MUCH BETTER PERFORMANCE in games, specifically BF4 which MS is trying to use as a reason to get Win 8.1 because *shocker* Win 8.1 unparked cores.

 

The only thing there is a difference in is wattage and it is so small I can't even see the difference. It is probably pennies a year...

It seems that with core unparking like you said it is only usefull on laptops, that makes sense because of laptop power saving but unless you have agressive power saving settings core unparking shouldn't ever be needed on a pc.

Plus if you are a serious gamer you don't use a laptop exept when you have to everyone knows this.

You also are contradicting youself as you are saying that unparking makes a difference in wattage but not in temps!

This is impossible so I guess that it's a typo as if you use more power you will produce more heat.

If you are getting much better performance with this then your cpu must be pretty weak or highly throttled(by parked cores or because of freq declock) and therefore your power settings must be wrong. If you use balanced power mode your system should scale to how much it performance it needs if not something must be set wrong.

If you have your cores parked and play a game with task manager open and it's using 100% then unparking would make a difference but if not then it will not have any effect at all and by thinking it does you are a victim of the placebo effect.

 

In short if you use proper power settings none of this should be needed unless windows straight out is blocking those threads for some unknown reason.

 

Also there just cores don't rage.

[deathjester]

It seems that with core unparking like you said it is only usefull on laptops, that makes sense because of laptop power saving but unless you have agressive power saving settings core unparking shouldn't ever be needed on a pc.

Plus if you are a serious gamer you don't use a laptop exept when you have to everyone knows this.

You also are contradicting youself as you are saying that unparking makes a difference in wattage but not in temps!

This is impossible so I guess that it's a typo as if you use more power you will produce more heat.

If you are getting much better performance with this then your cpu must be pretty weak or highly throttled(by parked cores or because of freq declock) and therefore your power settings must be wrong. If you use balanced power mode your system should scale to how much it performance it needs if not something must be set wrong.

If you have your cores parked and play a game with task manager open and it's using 100% then unparking would make a difference but if not then it will not have any effect at all and by thinking it does you are a victim of the placebo effect.

 

In short if you use proper power settings none of this should be needed unless windows straight out is blocking those threads for some unknown reason.

 

Also there just cores don't rage.

 

100 percent absolutely false. Windows 7 and 8 (not 8.1) would park cores for absolutely no reason in games. Benchmarks? Always would unpark the cores (like Cinebench).Take a 4770k and a fresh install of Win 7 or 8. It will eventually put cores to sleep in all games, deciding it doesn't need them. This hurts 8 thread games very much so.

 

Win 8.1 disabled core parking which makes your entire post invalid. They did it for a reason. I am not the one here selling a fairy tale about using all your threads causing blue screens. That would be MS employees shareholders that do this on every forum and spam the BF4 forum with lies 24/7 trying to sell win 8.1. 

 

LOL at you calling my 4770k "weak" for gaming. A 4770k with three parked threads is a 5 thread chip in BF4 and win 7. Add to that the lower cores are put to sleep and it is random. Thread 1 and 3 and 4 might be put to sleep, causing stuttering.

 

This is what happens when you unpark cores on Win 7 or use 8.1 on a 4770k...8 thread games become a joke to play. Temps are near idle...Same thing probably happens on a 8320/8350. If anything my temps are BETTER with cores unparked and the games went from stuttering to being a joke to play.

 

[SkilledRebuilds]

I've been doing this for bloody ages on ALL desktops.

Desktops shouldn't even be using this feature.

 

Perfectly feasible for laptops to have it remain engaged and parking cores to save battery life when idle (shutting down 1-4 cores)

Stupid for Desktops, hence why I disable it, I have a program that does it for you as well, does not require restarts, has a GUI (park control), and yes, ON VS OFF> BF4 beta stutters dissipated COMPLETELY, Tombraider Minfps rises.

 

If you take the time to look at the differences.... you'll find out if its worth it.