CPU Usage

[toxic]

since getiing a x2 3800 a few months back..i have noticed that during intensive applications the CPU Usage only ever shows as arround 50% for each CPU...is there any reason for this? It is currently overclocked to 2.6Ghz.

Cheers

 

[toxic]

it does sometimes....just when I run the likes of prime95 and CPU burn etc. when the cpu utilisation should be 100% task manager and similar reporting programs only show 50-60% utiliastion whereas before with a single core 64 bit AMD cpu these loads would alsways be at 100...or very close too. I just wondered if this was correct and that the dual core was operating properly. Running cpu burn in the pic attached shows rainmeter and task manager only showing mid 50's for CPU where I would expect it to be 100%.....

man how do u attach pics to this forum?????

Cheers

 

[toxic]

Ahh yes...i see and understand now. 2 sets of cpu burn puts full load on the dual CPU. Thanks for explaining.

So i guess that when you are gaming...full load is put on only one of the CPU's right...while the other CPU just sits there operating other windows programs etc. Is there a way of telling windows to dedicate both CPU's to one program only...for instance during video encoding so that you can complete the task faster????

 

[toxic]

or even better still...allocate a CPU to whatever program you want...or does windows just do this automatically?

cheers guys

 

[toxic]

cool...thats what i thought...just though there mught have been programs on the go that lets you select both processors at same time.

Thanks for the help....