1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:07,759 So, I actually did a dedicated video on core unlocking quite some time ago on my 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:10,480 NCIXCOM channel, but ASUS has actually 3 00:00:07,759 --> 00:00:15,440 recently updated their core unlocker utility to make it even simpler. So, 4 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:21,520 Core Unlocking is basically taking processors such as the 5 00:00:17,240 --> 00:00:22,880 X3720, which AMD has um what they've 6 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:30,240 done is they've actually Okay, I'm going to drop the camera here for a minute so that I can break the seal on the CPU box 7 00:00:27,199 --> 00:00:32,559 here. What AMD has actually done is they 8 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:38,480 have physically disabled well not physically but through kind of a a 9 00:00:34,559 --> 00:00:42,320 software trick they have disabled the uh 10 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:44,320 one of the cores in the CPU. So they've 11 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:50,079 actually got dual cores that are also unlock or locked quad cores as well as 12 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:53,600 the triple cores. So the 720 today basically okay here I'm going to sort of 13 00:00:51,840 --> 00:01:00,320 stop rambling. The point of this video is to show you in real time how quickly 14 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:02,000 you can unlock the core of a CP of a CPU 15 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:09,360 in order to get better performance out of it. So today I'm going to be using the M4A889 GTD Pro USB 3 from ASUS using 16 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:14,000 their core unlocker. So ASUS has simplified the whole process down to one 17 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:18,320 button, a switch that you hit on the motherboard that will automatically 18 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:23,840 unlock any available extra cores for you. So here's my uh my retail 720. Just 19 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:28,640 going to install it in the socket here. So, lift up the lever. All right. 20 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:33,360 Where's my little triangle? I think it's going to be in that corner. Yep, there 21 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,280 we go. Okay. So, install that. Now, I'm 22 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:39,439 just doing a quick demo here, so I'm not going to bother Oh, my batter is dying. 23 00:01:38,159 --> 00:01:43,680 That's going to make this a far less effective demonstration in real time. 24 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:48,320 Hopefully, it lasts long enough for me to get some thermal compound on here and 25 00:01:46,079 --> 00:01:51,920 boot this thing up. So, I'm just going to apply a little bit of thermal 26 00:01:49,439 --> 00:01:56,000 compound on the CPU and then I'm just going to throw a heat sink on top of it 27 00:01:53,840 --> 00:02:01,360 rather than actually hook it up properly because um I don't have a whole lot of 28 00:01:58,719 --> 00:02:05,439 time here. So, here we go. Just going to plug in the fan. Okay, so the Coron 29 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:10,479 locker has been simplified right down to a and we're back. Hate it when the uh 30 00:02:08,640 --> 00:02:15,680 battery dies on my camera, but what can you do? Okay, so I was just showing the 31 00:02:12,879 --> 00:02:19,680 core unlocking button that ASUS has added to their motherboard. Well, 32 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:22,879 motherboards, some of them. So, you can see there's a little arrow here that 33 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:27,760 points to where the core unlocker button is. You press that button, the light 34 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:31,760 goes red, and then in theory, there are 35 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:33,680 four cores on this triple core CPU. 36 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:39,760 Now there's a lot of uh misconceptions about uh you know there being dangers 37 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:43,519 involved in unlocking cores like your system's going to be unstable and that 38 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:49,360 may be true but you got to understand that AMD unlocks cores for any number of 39 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:53,760 different reasons. Some of them are unlocks them locks them seals them off 40 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:59,760 for any number of different reasons. So press F1 to go into setup. Okay. F10 41 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:04,000 enter. And so those reasons could be anything ranging from the core being 42 00:03:01,599 --> 00:03:09,360 actually physically defective to maybe it not meeting their target power 43 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:11,680 envelope to maybe it being stable but 44 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:16,159 you know only uh only within not quite within their tolerances because almost 45 00:03:13,519 --> 00:03:21,680 all CPUs will actually run faster than what they're spec by at least a little 46 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:23,599 bit. Okay. So as long as you run the 47 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:28,080 proper stability test. Oh, there you go. Four cores are activated. That was easy. 48 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:33,040 As long as you run the necessary stability tests on your CPU, which means 49 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:39,519 just, you know, Prime 95 for 24 to 48 hours, if the CPU doesn't make a math 50 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:42,760 error, then it's stable. And this one 51 00:03:39,519 --> 00:03:46,239 appears to be not 52 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:49,040 stable. That's too bad. I mean, there 53 00:03:46,239 --> 00:03:58,560 you go. I just pulled sort of any random any random retail CPU. And uh this one 54 00:03:53,440 --> 00:04:00,400 happens to not be stable with the core 55 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:04,319 unlocker. I'm going to give it sort of one more try. I'm going to load the 56 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:09,280 defaults in the setup here and I'm going to 57 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:11,120 cuz h that's kind of disappointing. I've 58 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:16,639 actually had pretty good success myself unlocking CPUs and I had hoped that this 59 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:21,440 just sort of random one would work for me here. So far, no success. But that's 60 00:04:19,919 --> 00:04:27,759 the whole point of doing this kind of thing on camera so that everyone can 61 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:31,880 learn and have new experiences. Maybe 62 00:04:27,759 --> 00:04:31,880 I'll have some of my V8 juice. 63 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:41,040 Hopefully we don't get a blue screen this time. Blue screens are bad. Okay. 64 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:41,040 No, let's just start Windows 65 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:52,360 normally. H I wonder if it's to do with AHCI mode. 66 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:55,440 Could be something like 67 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:57,919 that. Well, I guess you're along for the 68 00:04:55,440 --> 00:05:01,440 ride now. I'm not about to stop the video now. If 69 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:08,240 you're interested, you can keep watching. And if you're not, then you 70 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:12,960 can always not watch anymore. So, I'm going to go into the onboard devices 71 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:17,479 configuration. I'm going to set the serial serial port. No, I'm going to set 72 00:05:16,479 --> 00:05:23,240 the onboard. No. 73 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:29,639 Hey, where are my uh where are my SATA 74 00:05:26,199 --> 00:05:31,479 ports? North bridge configuration. 75 00:05:29,639 --> 00:05:35,960 No. No. This is stupid. 76 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:42,840 H. 77 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:54,560 Well, I might have to give up at some point here. Can't figure out how to 78 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:58,080 set RAID on this motherboard. Normally, 79 00:05:54,560 --> 00:06:02,080 it's here, but I don't see it here. So, 80 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:05,479 I I actually don't have any uh any ideas 81 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:05,479 beyond that. 82 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:24,199 Oh, wonder if that's a problem. I'm going to do 83 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:24,199 this. Probably not, but you never know. 84 00:06:34,319 --> 00:06:42,800 Maybe I'll just show you the test bench some more. So, there's that little light that 85 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:42,800 says in theory everything should be 86 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:50,919 working. I didn't turn on turbo key, so it's not the uh it's not the automated 87 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:56,199 overclocking that's causing any problems here. Okay, we'll try that one more 88 00:06:53,199 --> 00:06:56,199 time. 89 00:06:59,759 --> 00:07:07,280 Oh, wouldn't it be funny if that had been 90 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:09,039 it? How about that? So, there you go. We 91 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:14,080 figured out how to get the system booted up. Well, we I guess I Well, you were 92 00:07:11,599 --> 00:07:18,240 here, too. Okay. No, we we figured out how to get the system booted up. I have 93 00:07:15,759 --> 00:07:22,160 Catalyst Control Center installed, which is completely unnecessary when you're 94 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:28,000 running a NVIDIA video card. So, I'm just going to go ahead and exit that. 95 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:30,400 So, let's uh let's fire up CPUZ to see 96 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:34,720 whether we have four cores running or not. So, I'm just going to go ahead and 97 00:07:32,479 --> 00:07:39,199 do that. And it looks like we have four cores, four threads. They're running at 98 00:07:37,039 --> 00:07:43,520 stock speed of 2.8 GHz. So, we'll go into the task manager here. So, yeah, 99 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:48,160 you can see that task manager has 1 2 3 four CPUs. And then we Okay, this is 100 00:07:46,319 --> 00:07:54,879 what I was saying before. You will need to run Prime 95 and I recommend small 101 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:56,879 FFTs for I'd say a minimum of 24 hours 102 00:07:54,879 --> 00:08:02,240 and then I'd run it anywhere from 24 to 48 hours to ensure that your triple core 103 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:04,759 CPU is stable with four cores enabled. 104 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:09,759 And then you can actually even sometimes overclock triple cores unlocked to quad 105 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:14,800 core and get even even more performance out of them. But there you go. That was 106 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:17,440 my core unlocking uh tutorial and we 107 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:22,280 figured out what the problem was and thank you for checking it out.