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Lunarbob19
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I've had Windows 10 running quite well now for a little over a week. The increased RAM certainly has things being able to have many things running at once, but when playing games like Starcraft 2 or Cities Skylines, the cpu is still not working all that fast.
I would like to try unlocking that fourth core now. I've looked into things as much as I can on my own and now have just a few questions here.
According to this site, http://www.cpu-world.com/info/AMD/Unlocking_cores_and_L3.html, it appears my cpu was a base Deneb core with potential of a 4thcore and L3Cache.
Also, my motherboard is a chipset southbridge710, so it should have the Advanced clock calibration setting in bios.
The only thing making me hesitate is the various forum posts found when searching of people saying when they set the ACC to auto it black screens them and won't POST. I've never had to reset CMOS before, and it seems a bit daunting.
So my question are:
1. How likely is it to be forced to reset CMOS when attempting this? I mean, it is a regular feature of the Mobo so you would think it shouldn't screw things up that bad.
2. Aside from resetting CMOS, is there any worse problems that could arise? Like, frying the MoBo or Cpu. I don't have a different cpu to use if I run into such a problem, and near as I can tell the AM3 socket cpu's just aren't sold anywhere anymore.
Please let me know your thoughts on this, answers or correct me on anything I might understand wrongly.
Thank you.
I would like to try unlocking that fourth core now. I've looked into things as much as I can on my own and now have just a few questions here.
According to this site, http://www.cpu-world.com/info/AMD/Unlocking_cores_and_L3.html, it appears my cpu was a base Deneb core with potential of a 4thcore and L3Cache.
Also, my motherboard is a chipset southbridge710, so it should have the Advanced clock calibration setting in bios.
The only thing making me hesitate is the various forum posts found when searching of people saying when they set the ACC to auto it black screens them and won't POST. I've never had to reset CMOS before, and it seems a bit daunting.
So my question are:
1. How likely is it to be forced to reset CMOS when attempting this? I mean, it is a regular feature of the Mobo so you would think it shouldn't screw things up that bad.
2. Aside from resetting CMOS, is there any worse problems that could arise? Like, frying the MoBo or Cpu. I don't have a different cpu to use if I run into such a problem, and near as I can tell the AM3 socket cpu's just aren't sold anywhere anymore.
Please let me know your thoughts on this, answers or correct me on anything I might understand wrongly.
Thank you.