How can I monitor CPU core usage?

EdwardTeach · 26 Apr 2010 at 12:20

I imagine that there is some kind of app i could use?

e.g I have just installed football manager 2010 on my new i7 930 build. I was a bit disappointed to seen that it didnt seem to be significantly faster than my 4yr old mac (albeit with slightly better detail on the shoddy graphics!)

So i was curious whether FM was making good use of my processor as I understand it necessary for an application to be specifically designed to take advantage of the multi-core

eddyc · 26 Apr 2010 at 12:23

speedfan does it. Not sure if it will keep track though. You might have to play the game not on full screen so you can still see it. I am sure someone else will suggest something better though.

Games are mostly graphics card dependant though so unless you have had a graphics upgrade you will most likely not see a huge difference.

EdwardTeach · 26 Apr 2010 at 12:25

i have speedfan but i am inclined not to trust it as it doesn't seem to recognise all the fans i have running.

alexp999 · 26 Apr 2010 at 12:31

Right click on taskbar (or CTRL+ALT+DEL),
Click task manager
Go to performance tab.

Wider you make the window, longer the record of usage will be on the graphs.

eddyc · 26 Apr 2010 at 12:33

Odd. You do have them all plugged into the motherboard? Speedfan will only detect them if they are on a mobo header.

Even if they are I think this might be a motherboard issue. I think it depends on what information the motherboard takes in. But you are right. Looking at those green bars is not the most scientific method anyway

icedbullet · 26 Apr 2010 at 12:34

Everest is one of the best applications I have used to monitor everything, not just cpu usage.

I posted an image of my desktop in this thread scroll down and you will see its a gadget in the far right of the screen

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18109215&page=10

benjo · 26 Apr 2010 at 12:35

Why are you concerned with performance in FM2010 when you have an i7?

Try a proper game and compare that to your Mac

reflux · 26 Apr 2010 at 12:36

Fm2010 is not a demanding game.

EdwardTeach · 26 Apr 2010 at 12:38

benjo said:
Why are you concerned with performance in FM2010 when you have an i7?

Try a proper game and compare that to your Mac

fm still feels sluggish to me that's why

EdwardTeach · 26 Apr 2010 at 12:38

reflux said:
Fm2010 is not a demanding game.

not graphically speaking, but if you run several leagues there is a lot of number crunching going on.

EdwardTeach · 26 Apr 2010 at 12:39

eddyc said:
Odd. You do have them all plugged into the motherboard? Speedfan will only detect them if they are on a mobo header.

Even if they are I think this might be a motherboard issue. I think it depends on what information the motherboard takes in. But you are right. Looking at those green bars is not the most scientific method anyway

I have 5 plugged into the mother board, i am not using any fan controller. Speedfan only recognises 3

FreeStream · 26 Apr 2010 at 12:58

EdwardTeach said:
I have 5 plugged into the mother board, i am not using any fan controller. Speedfan only recognises 3

Do they all have (working) RPM sensing wires?

IE are they detected in the BIOS?

Gilbert Coquard · 26 Apr 2010 at 13:02

EdwardTeach said:
fm still feels sluggish to me that's why

Same for everyone mate.

The problem is the code, not you're PC.

have you updated to the latest patch? that seems to help a bit.

EdwardTeach · 26 Apr 2010 at 13:02

Concorde Rules said:
Do they all have (working) RPM sensing wires?

IE are they detected in the BIOS?

ive not checked - i will do later today

Cycrow · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:03

have u made sure u've selected the option for multi threaded ?

ShaolinDreams · 27 Apr 2010 at 01:42

benjo said:
Why are you concerned with performance in FM2010 when you have an i7?

Try a proper game and compare that to your Mac

lol

apocgohan · 27 Apr 2010 at 02:04

It is definitely your graphics card m8, there is a lot there to be run, you wanna test your cpu power? run supcom forged alliance less graphic orientated more processor/ram

slightly better detail on a 4 year old mac suggests very rubbish graphics card, you can run some tests to stress your cpu, what I did on my system was benchmark my results using prime95 and watched the core speed using cpu-z but there are so many options to check out everyone has their way, pay a visit to the overclocking and cooling section and read the stickies

EdwardTeach · 27 Apr 2010 at 02:31

apocgohan said:
It is definitely your graphics card m8, there is a lot there to be run, you wanna test your cpu power? run supcom forged alliance less graphic orientated more processor/ram

slightly better detail on a 4 year old mac suggests very rubbish graphics card, you can run some tests to stress your cpu, what I did on my system was benchmark my results using prime95 and watched the core speed using cpu-z but there are so many options to check out everyone has their way, pay a visit to the overclocking and cooling section and read the stickies

No you have misunderstood - the graphics are slightly better on my pc- albeit not great because football manager does NOT have decent graphics.

I have a 5850, and football manager will be barely using it.

Davedree · 27 Apr 2010 at 02:35

Use coretemp, It shows voltage, and bus speeds/ core speeds and core utilisation.
+ You can enable logging whilst playing games/encoding, thermal testing etc

apocgohan · 27 Apr 2010 at 11:54

Quick search found me these requirements

Intel Processor - Pentium 4 3.0GHz
AMD Processor - Athlon 64 4000+
Nvidia Graphics Card - Geforce 7600 GT 256MB
ATI Graphics Card - Radeon X1800 Series 256MB
RAM Memory - 1.5 GB
Hard Disk Space - 2.5 GB
Direct X - 9

yea definitely go use one of the programs listed above, log all the stuff while playing the game see how hot the pc gets, also don't rule out the possibility of it may be your RAM since football manager does seem to use up quite a bit of RAM.