Are there any legit ways to increase your CPU performance?

[Skidrow Silviu]

Hello so i have an I3 7100 2 cores 4 threads 3.9 GHz. Are there any legit ways to increase its speed? I am not talking about overclocking/

So i noticed an aplication CPUCores :: Maximize Your FPS. I have seen reviews that say this is ♥♥♥♥ but also a lot of reviews that say this is very good so i dont know actualy what to believe? It is worth it? I was thinking of buying it and then test some games and if it dont increase my CPU performance just refund it.

Also someone sayd to me that even if it says i have 2 cores, there are 2 more that are innactive and he sayd if i want better performance to activate them from system configuration, but is it safe? Are there any downsides to this?

Are their any worth optimizer tools? I use revo uninstaler to uninstal and clean junk files and karspersky to update software, repair windows and stuff like this and i was thinking of downloading driver booster 5 also.

I mostly keep my windows clean, i start up only with antivirus(karspersky) and i even deactivated some windows services. All drivers updated.

Also . I have an windows 7 and i keep get messages that windows 7 is not compatible with my I3 but it ways that i just dont receive important security updates not that i have decreased performance. Is there a real problem?

So can someone help me?

[Azza ☠]

Astro_80 eredeti hozzászólása:

Ðavз eredeti hozzászólása:

get rid of the lousy i3 and get an i7..

You don't need an i7 to game.

i7 CPU is same performance of i5 in regards to gaming purposes, but also has hyperthreading which can help with multiple tasking. If you can afford it, there's no harm in it.

However, yes your best and biggest performance hit would be upgrading/replacing the CPU, depending on what the motherboard can support up to.

Overclocking can only do so much and can increase heat/noise/stability issues.

As for increasing FPS, the CPU doesn't play the major part (unless bottlenecking), rather it's the graphics card which dishes out FPS.

ps: How is software meant to make hardware run faster? Unless it's making single thread games into multiple core, to avoid idling CPU cores and overclocking it? It's pretty much a glimmick.

Hense it would mostly just be doing this:

CTRL+ALT+DEL -> Task Manager -> Details -> The application or game EXE -> Right-click

Set Proirty (Higher can choke other processes, but makes it more realtime for that one)
(and)
Set affinity (Selecting a CPU core or multiple cores to be used, such as restricting Windows to a single core and the game to the others)

Then perhaps a little overclocking which can be done via any free software or best at BIOS level.

Again it's a lot of effort for little increase. Overclocking was a thing of the past, back in 1999, where CPUs and GPUs where large and had airspace to cooldown with, therefore could be increased in voltage. These days, smaller, less airspace inbetween, less room to overclock. Hardware itself shouldn't even be lagging anyways, if not bottlenecked.

[Kaihekoa]

Azza ☠ eredeti hozzászólása:

Again it's a lot of effort for little increase. Overclocking was a thing of the past, back in 1999, where CPUs and GPUs where large and had airspace to cooldown with, therefore could be increased in voltage. These days, smaller, less airspace inbetween, less room to overclock. Hardware itself shouldn't even be lagging anyways, if not bottlenecked.

Plenty of overclocking headroom in modern hardware. My i7-6700K has a default clockspeed of 4ghz but overclocks to 4.8ghz, 20% free performance increase. My GTX 1080 Ti has a default clock in the 1.6ghz range but with auto overclocking and manual OC goes to 2.1ghz, again free performance increase. And it's all stays very cool w/ CPU and GPU temps in the 60s on good air cooling while gaming.

But, this is off topic, the original post has been answered.

[Azza ☠]

Kaihekoa eredeti hozzászólása:

Azza ☠ eredeti hozzászólása:

Again it's a lot of effort for little increase. Overclocking was a thing of the past, back in 1999, where CPUs and GPUs where large and had airspace to cooldown with, therefore could be increased in voltage. These days, smaller, less airspace inbetween, less room to overclock. Hardware itself shouldn't even be lagging anyways, if not bottlenecked.

Plenty of overclocking headroom in modern hardware. My i7-6700K has a default clockspeed of 4ghz but overclocks to 4.8ghz, 20% free performance increase. My GTX 1080 Ti has a default clock in the 1.6ghz range but with auto overclocking and manual OC goes to 2.1ghz, again free performance increase. And it's all stays very cool w/ CPU and GPU temps in the 60s on good air cooling while gaming.

But, this is off topic, the original post has been answered.

I would have to disagree, when you compare to the past overclocks of older CPUs/GPUs compared to today... then factor in real-world results (you can actually see and notice) vs noise/heat and shortening the hardware lifespan. It's not worth it (as much).

Overclocking use to be an art, now it's a waste of time. I've already got maxed out smooth performance with zero lag or issues anyways. Why half fast something?

[Overseer]

Just forget about these optimization tools that promise free performance and don't run any junk programs in the background while gaming. If anything have the right drivers and find game specific modifications/hacks that improve performance.
For example a Skyrim mod providing compressed textures may improve performance. Same with programs that modify draw calls to either fix issues or improve performance. Kaldaien’s FAR mod for Nier Automata is a good example. Or simply fiddle around with the CPU affinity like Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit requires it.

[tacoshy]

Azza ☠ eredeti hozzászólása:

Kaihekoa eredeti hozzászólása:

Plenty of overclocking headroom in modern hardware. My i7-6700K has a default clockspeed of 4ghz but overclocks to 4.8ghz, 20% free performance increase. My GTX 1080 Ti has a default clock in the 1.6ghz range but with auto overclocking and manual OC goes to 2.1ghz, again free performance increase. And it's all stays very cool w/ CPU and GPU temps in the 60s on good air cooling while gaming.

But, this is off topic, the original post has been answered.

I would have to disagree, when you compare to the past overclocks of older CPUs/GPUs compared to today... then factor in real-world results (you can actually see and notice) vs noise/heat and shortening the hardware lifespan. It's not worth it (as much).

Overclocking use to be an art, now it's a waste of time. I've already got maxed out smooth performance with zero lag or issues anyways. Why half fast something?

I disagree on that comment. I overclocked my 7700K to 5.2GHz while I already tested that I can reach stable 5.4GHz in Aida 64 and 5.3GHz in Prime 95 & Aida 64.
My Overclock of 5.2GHz (AVX-Offset of 2) reaches max temps of 73°C in Prime 95 in a 12h stress test (1344K).

Average performance boost in games is about 20% fps. Some games more some less. Besides CPU has a large impact on fps at above 60 fps.


Overclocking shortens the lifespan of 10 years down to 7-8 years. Ppl that OC from the beginning on dont care about that lifespan sicne they upgrade befor that anyways and for others that OC when reaching the end of the performance need use it to get a bit more time befor upgrading.

Overclocking has no performance issues. The only performance issue is when you have an unstable OC and thats the only efford and "art" you have to do... testing for hours if the OC runs stable and finding the highest clockrates with the lowest voltage.


Heat is also no problem unless you try to OC with bad coolers. Also modern CPU's doesnt get hotter then old CPU's if you delid. The only reason the get hotter by factory is that they now sue cheap TIM instead of solder because they where scared of microcracking and cant use LM because the CPUs getting punished during delivery.


Also noice just depends on your settings and hardware. I "just" use a 280mm AIO and if you ask ppl like Omega who saw and heared my PC during gaming, it is dead silent. Ok you hear the fans slightly but not more then any other average computer.