Spartacus Posted August 6, 2015 Member ID: 1387 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 30 Topic Count: 52 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2540 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2486 Achievement Points: 19555 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 05/02/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 03:14 PM Birthday: 06/05/1968 Device: Windows Posted August 6, 2015 I never knew this till my Friend CoRpSe at Headshot posted this fix for Windows 7... I had 4 CPU's out of my 8 "Parked" for years!!! Not anymore! hxtr and Johnny3Time 2 Awards
hxtr Posted August 6, 2015 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 2.94 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129714 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Posted August 6, 2015 humm... does not seem to be a problem in 8 and 10. BigPapaDean 1
Sammy Posted August 6, 2015 Member ID: 3036 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 219 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 9419 Content Per Day: 1.90 Reputation: 7515 Achievement Points: 62539 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 04/26/2008 Device: Windows Posted August 6, 2015 Never heard of that term before. But from what I read more about it there seems to be only little, if any, benefit to doing it. Awards
hxtr Posted August 6, 2015 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 2.94 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129714 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Posted August 6, 2015 Remember the Park Drive command? lol That was for the MFD drives.... like my old 20MB HD in my 8088. We have come a long way. BigPapaDean, Spartacus and J3st3r 3
eidolonFIRE Posted August 6, 2015 Member ID: 2759 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 17 Topic Count: 199 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3496 Content Per Day: 0.69 Reputation: 3021 Achievement Points: 26464 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 08/22/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 16, 2017 Birthday: 07/27/1990 Posted August 6, 2015 Looks like a bunch of hokus-pokus. 1) A single given thread only uses one core at a time... somehow "forcing all cores to run" is not going to speed up that single program you are running. (like a game) If anything it will tie up resources unnecessarily and slow down the thread that requires the most attention. 2) It looks like what he's doing is disabling any power saving in his laptop. This is a terrible terrible idea. - If you've setup the power mode correctly, a core's clock only slows down when it's not needed. It will fire back up automatically when it's needed to run something. As long as you've disabled any throttling (basic power settings for a laptop), doing this "fix" can only have bad results. - Refusing your processor the rest that it's designed to take could have a whole number of side effects. * Excess heat... Over the lifetime of your laptop, excess heat can be fatal for your computer. You will begin to get more and more blue screens as it reaches critical temps and automatically dumps everything and powers down. If this happens too many times, it can even permanently damage gates in the cpu and memory when temps get over 200F. Laptops are generally not designed to handle the heat their hardware is capable of dissipating. This is why so many laptops need cooling pads. * Excess power usage... This can overheat your power brick. If it gets too hot in can burn the insulation off of the coils in the transformer and short out. Most likely outcome is the smell of melting plastic and no power to your laptop. Over the lifetime of your laptop, excess power usage can also prematurely wear out your battery. Lion batteries have a limited number of cycles and each cycle they lose a little bit of their storage capacity. Long periods of high discharge rates combined with excess heat from a floored processor (that isn't using it's power saving) will most definitely result in the classic, "don't unplug my laptop, it will die immediately".
Sammy Posted August 6, 2015 Member ID: 3036 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 219 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 9419 Content Per Day: 1.90 Reputation: 7515 Achievement Points: 62539 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 04/26/2008 Device: Windows Posted August 6, 2015 Its a common symptom that people will say there is a difference when there is none. Placebo effect and all of that. eidolonFIRE 1 Awards
eidolonFIRE Posted August 6, 2015 Member ID: 2759 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 17 Topic Count: 199 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3496 Content Per Day: 0.69 Reputation: 3021 Achievement Points: 26464 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 08/22/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 16, 2017 Birthday: 07/27/1990 Posted August 6, 2015 Its a common symptom that people will say there is a difference when there is none. Placebo effect and all of that. It would be really funny if this "magical registry edit" is actually changing some depreciated function with no actual effect on the system. lol
KaptCrunch Posted August 6, 2015 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 48 Topic Count: 342 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5064 Content Per Day: 0.88 Reputation: 4332 Achievement Points: 40863 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 63 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 3 hours ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Posted August 6, 2015 no need to go in registery all you need to type in dosbox msconfig then Boot tab then advance button select your real core # not threads Awards
Spartacus Posted August 6, 2015 Member ID: 1387 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 30 Topic Count: 52 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2540 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2486 Achievement Points: 19555 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 05/02/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 03:14 PM Birthday: 06/05/1968 Device: Windows Author Posted August 6, 2015 Looks like a bunch of hokus-pokus. 1) A single given thread only uses one core at a time... somehow "forcing all cores to run" is not going to speed up that single program you are running. (like a game) If anything it will tie up resources unnecessarily and slow down the thread that requires the most attention. 2) It looks like what he's doing is disabling any power saving in his laptop. This is a terrible terrible idea. - If you've setup the power mode correctly, a core's clock only slows down when it's not needed. It will fire back up automatically when it's needed to run something. As long as you've disabled any throttling (basic power settings for a laptop), doing this "fix" can only have bad results. - Refusing your processor the rest that it's designed to take could have a whole number of side effects. * Excess heat... Over the lifetime of your laptop, excess heat can be fatal for your computer. You will begin to get more and more blue screens as it reaches critical temps and automatically dumps everything and powers down. If this happens too many times, it can even permanently damage gates in the cpu and memory when temps get over 200F. Laptops are generally not designed to handle the heat their hardware is capable of dissipating. This is why so many laptops need cooling pads. * Excess power usage... This can overheat your power brick. If it gets too hot in can burn the insulation off of the coils in the transformer and short out. Most likely outcome is the smell of melting plastic and no power to your laptop. Over the lifetime of your laptop, excess power usage can also prematurely wear out your battery. Lion batteries have a limited number of cycles and each cycle they lose a little bit of their storage capacity. Long periods of high discharge rates combined with excess heat from a floored processor (that isn't using it's power saving) will most definitely result in the classic, "don't unplug my laptop, it will die immediately". Well he does state that it will consume more power in a laptop... I am using it on my Desktop... Awards
J3st3r Posted August 6, 2015 Member ID: 2162 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 155 Topic Count: 152 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5254 Content Per Day: 1.00 Reputation: 5205 Achievement Points: 46195 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 25 Joined: 01/25/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: 21 hours ago Birthday: 02/26/1972 Device: Windows Posted August 6, 2015 (edited) Remember the Park Drive command? lol That was for the MFD drives.... like my old 20MB HD in my 8088. We have come a long way. LOL hell ya I had a BEASTLY 4 foot tall Dual 8088 CPU Packard Bell tower with 32mb of memory.8 x 4mb sticks.It was one fast mother well it was compared to a single cpu IBM with an 8086 and 8mb (4x 2mb) of memory. I went from that to a built 486 33mhz Gateway. Haha look though this.Bet it will bring back some memories. https://books.google.com/books?id=GNYH0lLwKgAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Yes Windows 7 does park all virtual cores if you don't have SP1 installed.Once SP1 is installed you can un-park them by going to the Power options and set it to Maximum Performance OR Change these settings in Advanced power Options then reboot. Parked Cores on an AMD chip Does cause Jitters and Micro freezing while gaming on alot of games and aps.Only if you have a 6 or 8 core AMD chip though.The virtual cores behave Differently than the Pentium chips with HT. Edited August 6, 2015 by Pvt.Death Spartacus 1 Awards
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