CPU Parking in other words a Tweak

[Defiance]

Hiya's,

Bit of reading but i think guys with dual cores or more will find this amazing, i certainly did ..................................

I had been gaming for many years with crossfired 4890's

Served me really well

I really needed a new rig, and firstly as i'm not made of money i thought gpu, then after intel release their updated cpu's anytime now i will see how they fair before deciding on which mobo/cpu to get

Well, the new gpu is amazing, it's an r9 290x which i slapped on a water block as i love to bios flash cards with my own modded specs so it made sense to watercool her (her, lmao, hell yeah she's smooth as silk)

Well the fps increase was staggering with this new gpu, but i still had tiny minute jelly effect of water around the sub, and moreso with the new gpu (for some weird reason) i had mouse lag which i had only ever had with a sluggish logitech driver

Well i tried all different fixes/approaches and gave up, then reading an oc'ing forum i happened across a post about cores being parked

I followed a link to a simple proggy to un-park the cores

Seems windows really likes to park the cores by default, from what i quickly absorbed, the cores spring into action when needed but this can cause A: micro stutter effects (my jelly sea) or B: mouse lag

After running the prog (instead of having to wade through the registry, which i'd rather do) i checked and 3 out of my 4 cores were indeed parked

Simply executed the un-park option, checked cores were un-parked, and rebooted, checked again, still un-parked

This has cured my micro jelly water effect, also now my mouse movements are amazingly crisp

I can't believe all these years i've been using pc's i'd never came across 'parked cores'

I always oc my cpu's and gpu's (when it was possible) , i started watercooling with home-made blocks in 95, built several phasechange coolers and ran -25c and below (ahh happy days of crunching or chipping athlon dies), volt modded gawd knows how many mobos, only to find since dual cores and above came around a simple reg edit or prog could unleash more fps and speediness (yeah for those that know about this parked core mallarky, i guess i'm one of those that have been under a stone) hehe

Well if anyone with either of my symptoms wants to try, google or youtube for info how to regedit, or try this util in link (hope the links ok to put up, if not i'll remove asap) (if you're able i'd say do your own regit, if you're not used to messing withe reg just use the util/prog)

Worked for me and my fps has gone up also (win win)

http://coderbag.com/Programming-C/Di...arking-Utility

Sorry it's long winded, but trying to emphasize what it's fixed for me, and to give you a bit of background showing i'm not a moron lol (who says i am ehh ehh)