Affiliating cores with different applications?

[bainbridge]

Does anyone do this? Long ago when I got my 1st dual core (E6300) I remember assigning my encoding to one core & the other applications such as the web browser etc. to the other. TBH I'm not really sure if it improved the performance or not but I used to do it anyway as having more than one cpu was still a novelty for me

I was fiddling about with my current system, encoding on 3 cores & affiliating the remaining one with the web browser & office applications as I was typing something up while listening to streaming music. Now other than getting cooler overall temps by giving the warmest core (core 0) least work to do, I can't really see what benefit there is for using the option to affiliate cores.

Just wondered if anyone uses this feature & if so what for.

 

[seanyc5]

Unless you have your encoding set to high priority i cant see it would make a difference, infact it would slow it down as your using 3 cores apposed to 3.8cores (the 0.2 for web browser eg..)
I think its only really needed with very old games/apps that have problems running on more than core so they need to be set to just use one core.

 

[mothermachine]

Yes. But it's mainly used to limit certain very demanding applications from taking over your entire system. A good example is 3d rendering - it will use every last drop of CPU power it can but can sometimes stop even web pages loading in browsers. So what I often do is limit 3ds max to render on cores 1>11 and leave core 0 for chrome, tbird and everything else. It slows the render down a little bit but at least the rest of the system is stable and usable.

There is a program called ProcessLasso that allowed you do this on the fly or with programmed profiles and was very very good for a while but now appears to be broken, expensive and have updates almost every day which is a total PITA.

 

[Jay794]

I tired it once, it just seemed to slow the applications down way to much

 

[debs3759]

There is a program called ProcessLasso that allowed you do this on the fly or with programmed profiles and was very very good for a while but now appears to be broken, expensive and have updates almost every day which is a total PITA.

I agree that it's a PITA to have updates too often. I'm unaware of any part of it not working in Windows 7 on SB-E or SB, I have been using it on both, as well as on systems I'm benching. I find it to be a very useful app (it can take a while to find the optimal settings for any rig, especially with apps that make use of hyperthreading, but IMO it's worth the effort).