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Un Parking My Cores?

Engl1sh

Engl1sh

Engl1sh

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Hi just bought the Ultima Extreme Envy V2
CPU is Intel Core i7 4770K 3.40GHz @ 4.50GHz Haswell
My question is.... "if i unpark my cores will it affect my overclock?"

Reason being BF4 is running like Poo and im told unparking the cores will help?
Thanks in advance.
 
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I have almost literally no idea what it means to un-park cores, but I do know that it is OS based, so in answer to your question no it will not affect your overclock. :)

I'd personally create a thread asking on here about un-parking cores first though as I for one have never heard of doing that, and if it hasn't been recommended on here in the past there is probably a valid reason for that.
 
Engl1sh said:
Hi just bought the Ultima Extreme Envy V2
CPU is Intel Core i7 4770K 3.40GHz @ 4.50GHz Haswell
My question is.... "if i unpark my cores will it affect my overclock?"

Reason being BF4 is running like Poo and im told unparking the cores will help?
Thanks in advance.
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You have nothing to lose. I would go with either of the tools that exist for that reason (assuming you use W8).

I just run the commands on the CMD. Easier and one way process :D
 
i believe it allows more power to the cores, enabling some games to run more smoothly... im not fully up to speed about it.. that why i posted here. i may be completely wrong.
 
I would be very surprised is a 4.5GHz i7 4770K wasn't enough to keep BF4 happy. You can't get a whole lot better than that. Especially when combined with a GTX780.

How exactly is it "running like poo"? What resolution are you playing at and with what graphics settings? Do you have the latest drivers for your graphics card etc?
 
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the game constantly crashes and stutters... i know there's a problem with the client side program from BF4 but other people i know have less issues so im looking at all scenarios that i can use to help myself. As long as unparking wont/cant affect the overclock i paid for i will go ahead and unpark them. Just wanted some reassurance.
I use native resolution/auto video settings (tried all)/always always use the latest drivers and in the event of failure revert back.
 
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I did it, using the core parking utility . works fine saw a few gains on some games, still stable.

parking is a useless feature introduced in vista i believe, anyway its basically a power saving feature that you dont want or need
 
I never got a chance to try it.. the next morning the PC would not boot up to windows.. only 10 days old and it fell over.. tried the usual video card out, removing one stick of memory at a time but i just couldn't even get into the bios! Spoke to OC and its now RMA back to the womb.
BTW i was using W7 ultimate 64Bit.. Back on my old rig for now..
 
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I never got a chance to try it.. the next morning the PC would not boot up to windows.. only 10 days old and it fell over.. tried the usual video card out, removing one stick of memory at a time but i just couldn't even get into the bios! Spoke to OC and its now RMA back to the womb.
BTW i was using W7 ultimate 64Bit.. Back on my old rig for now..
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Sounds like un-parking cores was a good decision. Doing so has revealed a poorly configured overclock.
 
Running fine for me in BF4. Defo makes a difference to FPS adn stability. That and my upgrade from Win 7 -> Win 8.1.
 
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What does this actually do? Does it stop the cores and voltage clocking down when idle, effectively disabling power saving?
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It doesnt stop voltage/speed dropping down. But it does stop some of your cores being put into a dormant state so to say. Good vid explaining it here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkfIFP0g2xY

Ive done it on my 4770k and voltage/speed still drop at idle.
 
Core parking those that don't is something Windows tries to do when it has multiple CPU threads at it's disposal.

If you have 4 cores Windows will try and shuffle the load onto the least amount of cores as possible, then it down clocks or puts the remaining cores to 'sleep' i.e... It parks them.

Problem with this is that if Windows parks a core while it's middle of doing something Windows then has to transfer that task over to a core that's not parked to start work load all over again. This is an even bigger problem for AMD as the modules in an FX CPU share resources so when Windows parks a 'core' in an FX chip that is part of the same module is royally screws up chip performance.

This creates latencies and stalls when calculating tasks.
 
Thanks for the link and explanation setter and almighty. Checked mine and had 3 cores parked so all are now unparked. Will see what difference it makes.
 
Engl1sh said:
Hi just bought the Ultima Extreme Envy V2
CPU is Intel Core i7 4770K 3.40GHz @ 4.50GHz Haswell
My question is.... "if i unpark my cores will it affect my overclock?"

Reason being BF4 is running like Poo and im told unparking the cores will help?
Thanks in advance.
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If you game there's no reason to keep your cores parked unless you really need the couple of quid a year you'll save on the leccy.

If BF4 is running poo are you running XFire by chance, if so I can help.
 
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