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Unpark CPU cores for more performance.

Unparking my Q9650@4Ghz cores has made substantial improvement to my gaming experience!! :cool:

I am getting 10-15FPS more on average while playing BF3!!

E.g on bandar desert around flags A,B,C where usually most of the action is concentrated; before unparking I was getting around 45-48FPS on average. After unparking cores, I am getting 55-57FPS on average :)

Amazing!!
 
Thats quite a nice improvement WingZero. Particularly on bandar as it's quite a resource hungry map.
 
WingZero30 said:
Unparking my Q9650@4Ghz cores has made substantial improvement to my gaming experience!! :cool:

I am getting 10-15FPS more on average while playing BF3!!

E.g on bandar desert around flags A,B,C where usually most of the action is concentrated; before unparking I was getting around 45-48FPS on average. After unparking cores, I am getting 55-57FPS on average :)

Amazing!!
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chris182008 said:
Just another thank you for this I had no idea and had 3 cores parked.
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Nice one guys :D
 
Kei said:
Just did this with my new 4820K and it certainly made a difference to the overall smoothness. I did it via the registry myself by searching for the key "0cc5b647-c1df-4637-891a-dec35c318583" and changing "Attributes" from 1 to 0 which enables the core parking option in the advanced power management section in control panel. It means i can control the percentage of cores un-parked from the default of 10%. (it also works without needing to restart)
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This is by far the best way to make the change, just change the 10% to 100%. I can't really see much difference in power usage either with parking disabled, so I have no idea why it is enabled by default on desktop machines and also the high performance profile in power options.

Noticed on the i7 it seems to park the virtual cores from Hyperthreading, so perhaps it is a way of forcing real core usage before virtual core usage, but when a game uses 8 threads unparking is more of a hit than using real before virtual.

Who knows, seems this was fixed in Windows 8 according to most posts however.
 
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ALXAndy said:
Windows 8 includes absolutely tons and tons if improvements and fixes, most of which is under the hood.

It takes about an hour to make it look and behave like 7 only it's so much faster throughout (booting, shutting down etc) that I wouldn't go back now.
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Hi ALXAndy it would be nice if there was a program out there that would do all the changes for you instead of you spending an hour changing it :)
 
delpy8 said:
Hi ALXAndy it would be nice if there was a program out there that would do all the changes for you instead of you spending an hour changing it :)
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Are you really that lazy? seriously?

Install it. Download and install a start button app, I use this one.

http://www.iobit.com/iobitstartmenu8.php

Disable UAC

Disable forced driver signature enforcement.

Right click your files (like a mp3 for example) and set it to always open in media player.

Repeat with all of your files. You'll never see Metro again.
 
ALXAndy said:
Are you really that lazy? seriously?

Install it. Download and install a start button app, I use this one.

http://www.iobit.com/iobitstartmenu8.php

Disable UAC

Disable forced driver signature enforcement.

Right click your files (like a mp3 for example) and set it to always open in media player.

Repeat with all of your files. You'll never see Metro again.
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Thanks no no not lazy just not got a clue :)
I've been using startisback but the iorbit one definitely sounds better
 
WingZero30 said:
Unparking my Q9650@4Ghz cores has made substantial improvement to my gaming experience!! :cool:
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Hmm, I'm wondering if I can beat any more BF4 oomph out of my decrepit Q8300 @3Ghz, tbh it's been doing well thus far, I'll give this a try when I get home - but won't hold my breath!!
 
Tried this on my oc haswell,volts drop when idle but cpu remains at it's oc state,reason I wanted to give unparking a try in windows 7 is horrible micro stutter in assetto corsa beta,run game maxed with high fps and full grid,but since last update was awful micro stutter,since unparking cores on i7 micro stutter has gone,surprised it works but does!
 
Well judging by the intel chips benefiting from this it seems to be a serious oversight of 'silly things' to happen. Surprised none of them have announced or at least explained why it occurs.
 
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