do i need to unpark my cpu cores with win 8.1

the day b4 2moro · Apr 2, 2014

hi guys, i was wandering through youtube one day when i heard that unparking cpu cores improves performance......without any downsides.
so i searched around and found the general consensus is that you should do it, however i saw someone say that windows 8.1 already unparks your cores, so you dont need to do anything... is this true?
i ask this because i dont really want to go through downloading an unparking software, just to find out windows 8.1 does it for me...
also if i should, can anyone recommend an unparking software for me, plz?
thanks in advance!

siddharthmukul007 · Apr 2, 2014

you do not need to do anything to unpark your cpu cores. windows will manage that for you.

you do not need to worry...

call me mister · Sep 14, 2014

You dont need any softwares just follow this tutorial. http://thehowtoman.com/how-to-unpark-cpu-for-battlefield-4/

Jeremy Armstrong · Oct 8, 2014

To those who find this (it ranks very high in google search) please understand that there *are* downsides to forcefully unparking your CPU and that it does not improve the over all performance of your computer.

For starters the entire reason multi-core CPUs have developed the ability to park cores when they aren't needed is to reduce power consumption and heat production. Forcefully unparking your cores all the time will make your CPU use more energy and have a higher idle-temperature. Because of the latter it could potentially shorten the life of your CPU... though by how much is unknown.

Additionally the supposed benefit of improved performance is highly misleading. If your computer and the software on it are working correctly your CPU cores will unpark on their own whenever there is a demand for more processing power. Unparking your CPU cores forcefully will not make your CPU perform better than it would if it unparked on it's own.

The reason unparking utilities exist is in the rare cases when a program requiring high CPU performance none-the-less behaves in a manner that keeps the CPU from unparking on it's own. Then it becomes necessary to forcefully unpark your cores to make the full processing capability of your CPU available. Some older games (predating multi-core CPUs) have this problem while newer games, as a rule, do not.

MahJack · Jul 24, 2015

Jeremy Armstrong :

To those who find this (it ranks very high in google search) please understand that there *are* downsides to forcefully unparking your CPU and that it does not improve the over all performance of your computer.

For starters the entire reason multi-core CPUs have developed the ability to park cores when they aren't needed is to reduce power consumption and heat production. Forcefully unparking your cores all the time will make your CPU use more energy and have a higher idle-temperature. Because of the latter it could potentially shorten the life of your CPU... though by how much is unknown.

Additionally the supposed benefit of improved performance is highly misleading. If your computer and the software on it are working correctly your CPU cores will unpark on their own whenever there is a demand for more processing power. Unparking your CPU cores forcefully will not make your CPU perform better than it would if it unparked on it's own.

The reason unparking utilities exist is in the rare cases when a program requiring high CPU performance none-the-less behaves in a manner that keeps the CPU from unparking on it's own. Then it becomes necessary to forcefully unpark your cores to make the full processing capability of your CPU available. Some older games (predating multi-core CPUs) have this problem while newer games, as a rule, do not.

Thanks! Not taking the risk at all!
even though it's an old thread, it helped!

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