How can I monitor CPU core usage?

[EdwardTeach]

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

 

[EdwardTeach]

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

 

[EdwardTeach]

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]

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]

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

 

[EdwardTeach]

Do they all have (working) RPM sensing wires?

IE are they detected in the BIOS?

ive not checked - i will do later today

 

[EdwardTeach]

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.

 

[EdwardTeach]

I have 6gb of low latency patriot viper RAM (my spec is in my sig)

I don't think it is anything wrong with my pc, it is just an inneficient game.