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Windows tweak for increased speeds

Naismith

Naismith

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I cam across this video - no idea if it makes a whiff of difference. Am testing out myself now as the report was I had 3 parked CPU's

 
This is how evil AI was born, removing the shackles. Beware. Actually, this is what came to mind, from Spinal Tap...


Nigel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Martin: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel: Exactly.
Martin: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Martin: I don't know.
Nigel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Martin: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel: Elevn. Exactly. One louder.
Martin: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
[Pause.]
Nigel: These go to eleven.



So I don't know, 100% is 100% right? Can't go more right? But then there's overclocking so will be interesting to see. Does this only apply to more than one core machines?
 
I think it is for multi core only, I have to say FSX seems to boot slightly quicker since I tried this. Any difference though is in the microseconds, haven't noticed any great diff in fps etc..
It would take someone with diagnostics to accurately test it out, or a stopwatch, but in my case I have to use a calendar. :icon_lol:
 
All 4 of mine are running. I have to use a calender when booting up mine also.

There is something running on mine that takes up a lot of recources, and causes a huge memory leak when running FSX, but I'll be darned if I can find it.
 
I am running a quad-core I7-950 CPU with a clock speed of 3.06Ghz. I looked under Resource Manager or what ever it is....and found that 1/2 of my CPUs are parked.....but not really......The I7-950 has hyper threading, so it makes my quad-core behave like it has 8 cores.....the CPUs that are parked are the hyper-threading CPUs....the ones that are not really physical cores. I will try to CPU unlock thingie to see if I gain any performance increase.

Tim
 
From scanning some other forums and gaming sites, it seems there is no consensus of "wow what an improvement". There is however a lot of uncertain or no detectable change. Results also seem highly dependent on the particular machine as well as the game tested. I tend to stay away from these sorts of ideas, mainly because of my limited comp knowledge but also the ole gut saying "you were advised to pass on this one". Trust your feelings Luke.
 
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