Possible to increase performance on i5 4440S

[AliRidha]

Hey guys I noticed yesterday that my pc has an I5 4440S CPU instead of the normal 4440. Looking online it seems theres a big reduction in performance than the normal 4440 due to less power. I was wondering if there's a way to increase the preformance on it so it matches or gets close the the performance of the normal 4440. I know over clocking isn't possible on it but any way will be great.

 

[Gingerbread]

Unfortunately you can't do anything about it.

 

[TheBeatPile]

Yea the 4440s is locked and the BLCK can be increased but so little its not worth the risk of destroying the chip, The only other thing i could suggest is to modify windows a bit to not be so resource hungry like disabling aero and small things like that which you can google, I did this before and never noticed the difference so I fell theres not much that can be done.
The 4440s is an ok chip tho.

 

[SPgamer007]

Overclocking is the only way to increase CPUs performance overall, unfortunately you can't overclock a non- k CPU therefore can't do much, you can kill unnecessary tasks to lower the CPU usage though, in task manager.

Which GPU you have, if you don't have any extreme GPU that might get bottlenecked you shouldn't worry about it.

 

[blazorthon]

Most of the Sandy and Ivy non-K i5 and i7 chips could get a modest *overclock* by messing with Turbo settings. You could force them to go to max or near max Turbo all of the time. You might be able to do this with your i5-4440, but I can't say for sure because Haswell might not have this capability.

I highly doubt you could damage the chip with BCLK overclocking. It just can't go far without crashing and that isn't dangerous to the chip, unless you punch the CPU cooler when it crashes from being upped too much. The issue is that the BCLK controls things like the PCIe clock and they have very little wiggle room for stability. at best though you might only get about 3% to 5% before it is too unstable, so it isn't worth much, but there is no risk.

If you can force more out of the Turbo, then that would be a good performance improvement, but again I don't know if Haswell has the capability to control the Turbo settings like Sandy and Ivy did.

 

[TheBeatPile]

I guess had the wrong idea about what BLCK did. Thanks for the info blazorthon