New Core Parking Confusion

[Virgorising]

I mainly stick to testing things within the power config in the registry.

Well, for obvious reasons, I have been going there too in last coupla days. Along with running Speed Fan a lot, Task Mgr, etc.

But not sure what vital info we can glean in power config. Can U pls share?

I wish we could make like a poll re who, running W7 keeps cores parked vs unparked (and U bet, why?) I would like some perspective, esp here, where so many people know stuff and have uber experience.

Is yr core parking turned off? I think, just not positive. If so, do you notice differences from when it was turned on?

 

[Virgorising]

Am I working when I should be? NO. But I always get it done. Instead, I am still delving into core parking.

Well! Back in the day, when hyperthreading returned, it seems MS worked closely with Intel......to IMPROVE THINGS/potentiate things re power settings, etc..... and what we are addressing here.

I am stunned, actually, having found MS in this arena kinda Fascistic, and so, never once thinking Intel was actually a collaborative part of this.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-hyperthreading-intel-nehalem-atom,7831.html
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Edit: I am not an audio person, cept to play my MP3 tracks, but boy, this below is interesting!

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/musi...speedstep-turbo-boost-core-parking-print.html

 

[WOTMODS]

Sorry to make new post, but I want this to be clear with visuals. I am now positive the problem was in the simpler app, UnparkCPU, cause guess what? I just ran it---you can see in Resource Monitor they are all unparked, and IT, UnparkCPU, SAYS THEY ARE ALL PARKED! Which, they are SOOOO NOT.

I then ran the better, more complex app I used to unpark them, and it reflects the reality: all unparked!

I now think everyone should step awaaaay from UnparkCPU! Using it messed up Windows! I will now uninstall it.

IMPORTANT ADDENDA!!!! After getting rid of the bad app, I ran CCleaner's conservative reg cleaner, and OMG, it produced a TON---a whole page--- OF ACTIVE X entries, ALL OF WHICH were associated with the app!!!!

I deleted all of them. Again, stay AWAY from that app, guys!!

The top app doesn't work - sorry wish I had seen that earlier to save you the mess as I had tested it some time ago on a couple machines to no avail and should have mentioned that when suggesting what worked for me as a pre-packaged gui...

 

[Virgorising]

The top app doesn't work - sorry wish I had seen that earlier to save you the mess

OMG.....as if any part of this is YOUR FAULT?

And, when we suffer thru things the long way, then have to find a fix.....maybe we learn more than if someone in a cape flew down from the sky and made it easier!

My default mode in the midst of such events, cause they R part of life, is always "OK this sucks on the face of it, but what amazing things am I meant to learn from this?"

And always, it goes way beyond the elements of the event itself.:thumbsup:

Not to mention, having fine, similarly interested humans on yr side making honest efforts, especially in something this esoteric.....is HUGE. How can anyone not get that?

Again, despite my friends and colleagues use computers every minute of every day and always have, among them, I am the ONLY one who loves them, knows anything important about them, and is rabid to learn more. Shocking.....but true.

So, see how lucky I am to now be a part of this community?????:biggrin: When things got messed, just knowing I could post if I couldn't find a fix/get around on my own......was HUUUUUUGE.:wub:

(Once a cheerleader, ALWAYS a cheerleader.())

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

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[Virgorising]

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??????? What does that mean?????

And, please, as I said, guys, stay away from that app! It messed up my Powersettings, got things stuck, including cores in park, generated all kinda ActiveX errors, and it is just plain disgusting.

If I had different backup strategy, I might have had to put tons of reg keys back to normal manually!!!!

Also struck me during reverse clone, if I depended on RCN no money cloud backup, what took tiny time, would have taken uber time. Forget, what would one do, if one eneded to restore a drive if one's broadband was down?

Yes, this shows, if for only me, having cloned backup inside the box works best.

 

[dac7nco]

You should hire a professional (High School Student).

 

[Virgorising]

Final Edit/Final decision: Well, after running the system for many days with parking off, I turned it back on to get subjective sense. The system is, I think, as fast, and, while I ran Sisoft Sandra, the results confused me.

So, I did something simple which finally brought clarity: Using VSO, I loaded 8 copies of a music video I am currently obsessed with, so VSO would do simultaneous conversion and make bigger CPU load.

I had Resource monitor open showing my 4 reparked cores. The second conversion started, all cores became unparked, and the load was perfectly, evenly distributed among all. the second conversion finished, 4 cores got parked again. This was better than infinite metrics via say Sandra. I also now get, my cores are not stuck in parked.

And, while to some this ain no biggie, I kept testing my thermals when parking was off and they were 1 to 3 degrees C higher (around 30C) than formerly. When I turned parking back on, back to 26 - 28 at idle.

Tiny difference, but I like them lower, given, I now feel there seems to be no sacrifice in other ways with parking back on. At least re what I use my computer for.

Finis. (I think. lol)