 So I actually did a dedicated video on core unlocking quite some time ago on my NCIX calm channel But asus has actually recently updated their core unlocker utility to make it even simpler So core unlocking is basically taking processors such as the x3 720 which AMD has What they've done is they've actually okay? I'm gonna drop the camera here for a minute so that I can break the seal on the CPU box here What a has actually done is they have? Physically disabled well not physically but through kind of a software trick they have disabled the one of the cores in the CPU, so They've actually got dual cores that are also unlocked or locked quad cores as well as the triple cores So the 720 today basically okay here I'm gonna sort of stop rambling the point of this video is to show you in real time How quickly you can unlock the core of a CPU? The CPU in order to get better performance out of it so today I'm gonna be using the m4a 8 9 GTD Pro USB 3 from asus using their core unlocker So asus has simplified the whole process down to one button a switch that you hit on the motherboard That will automatically unlock any available extra cores for you, so here's my my retail 720 I'm just gonna install it in the socket here, so lift up the lever all right Where's my little triangle think it's gonna be in that corner? Yeah there we go Okay, so install that now. I'm just doing a quick demo here, so I'm not going to bother All my battery is dying that's gonna make this a far less effective demonstration in real time Hopefully it lasts long enough for me to get some thermal compound on here and boot this thing up So I'm just gonna apply a little bit of thermal compound on the CPU and then I'm just gonna throw a heatsink on top of it rather than actually hook it up properly because I Don't have a whole lot of time here, so here we go just gonna plug in the fan Okay, so the core unlocker has been simplified right down to us and we're back hate it when the Battery dies on my camera, but what can you do okay? So I was just showing the core unlocking button that is who says added to their motherboard well Motherboards some of them so you can see there's a little arrow here that points to where the core unlocker button is you press that button The light goes red and then in theory there are four cores on this triple core CPU Now there's a lot of misconceptions about You know they're being dangers involved in unlocking cores like your system is going to be unstable and that may be true But you got to understand that AMD unlocks course for any number of different reasons Some of them are unlocks them a locks them seals them off for any number of different reasons so press f1 to go into setup Okay F10 enter and so those reasons could be anything ranging from the core being actually physically defective to maybe it not meeting their target power envelope to maybe it being stable, but You know only only within not quite within their tolerances because almost all CPUs will actually run Faster than what they're spec'd at by at least a little bit Okay, so as long as you run the proper stability test oh there you go four cores are activated That was easy as long as you run the necessary stability tests on your CPU Which means just you know prime 95 for 24 to 48 hours if the CPU doesn't make a math error then it's stable and this one appears to be not stable That's too bad. I mean there you go. I just pulled sort of any random any random retail CPU and This one happens to Not be stable with the core unlocker. I'm going to give it sort of one more try I'm going to load the defaults in the setup here, and I'm going to because Hmm that's kind of disappointing I've actually had pretty good success myself unlocking CPUs And I had hoped that this just sort of random one would work for me here So far no success, but that's the whole point of doing this kind of thing on camera so that everyone can learn and Have new experiences Maybe I'll have some of my v8 juice Hopefully we don't get a blue screen this time blue screens are bad. Okay. No. Let's just start windows normally I wonder if it's to do with a HCI mode Could be something like that Well, I guess you're along for the ride now. I'm not about to stop the video now here Interested you can keep watching and if you're not then you can always not watch anymore So I'm going to go into the Onboard devices configuration. I'm going to set the serial serial port no I'm going to set the onboard no Hey Where are my? Where are my SATA ports? North bridge configuration no No This is stupid No, this is stupid Hmm Well I might have to give up at some point here Can't figure out how to set Raid on this motherboard Normally, it's here, but I don't see it here, so I I actually don't have any uh any ideas beyond that Oh, I wonder if that's a problem. We do this probably not but you never know Maybe I'll just show you the test bench some more So there's that little light that says in theory everything should be working I Didn't turn on turbo key, so it's not the it's not the automated overclocking. That's causing any problems here And we'll try that one more time Oh, it'd be funny if that had been it How about that so there you go we figured out how to get the system booted up Well, we I guess I well you were here, too Okay, no we we figured out how to get the system booted up. I have catalyst control center Installed which is completely unnecessary when you're running a Nvidia video card, so I'm just going to go ahead and exit that so let's go ahead and get the system booted up To see whether we have four cores running or not I'm just going to go ahead and do that and it looks like we have four cores four threads They're running at stock speed of 2.8. Gigahertz, so we'll go into the task manager here So yeah, you can see that task manager has one two three four CPUs And then we okay. This is what I was saying before you will need to run prime 95 and I'm going to run small FFTs for I'd say a minimum of 24 hours and then I'd run it anywhere from 24 to 48 hours to ensure that your triple core CPU Is stable with four cores enabled and then you can actually even sometimes overclock Triple cores unlock to quad core and get even even more performance out of them, but there you go That was my core unlocking And then we're going to run the first core CPU Quad core and get even even more performance out of them, but there you go. That was my core unlocking Uh tutorial and we figured out what the problem was And thank you for checking it out