Core Usage
Just want to hear your opinions...
Monday, January 18, 2010 by RedneckDude | Discussion: Windows 7
I recently added a dual core CPU to my PC running Windows 7 Home Premium and was running something, can't remember what, I think it was an AMD CPU Info app or something. Anyway, I found a setting where I could assign certain things to be handled by certain cores.
Is this a good idea? Should I let the system decide? Does anyone know anything about this?
Reply #3 Monday, January 18, 2010 10:51 PM
I was hoping you'd show up....OK, I won't. Thanks for answering.
Reply #4 Tuesday, January 19, 2010 2:43 AM
This can be useful if you don't want a multithreaded application to take all the CPU time (for example if you're transcoding a video for use on a portable player and just setting the priority to low is not enough).
In most other cases it's not necessarily a good idea though. Setting an application to only one core will mean it won't be using the full power available and will run much slower (nitpick: this only applies to multithreaded applications, but since most of them are these days, it's better to just let the system manage those itself).
Most of the details you probably don't want to know about are on this totally unreadable wikipedia page.
Reply #5 Tuesday, January 19, 2010 2:30 PM
I hope that long technical answer isn't too much for a Redneck to grasp.
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Reply #1 Monday, January 18, 2010 10:18 PM
OK, I found it. I saw it in Task Manager. I can right click a running process and choose affinity and it will allow me to set which core to run it with.
Is this something a " not quite power user " should do?