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liquidmonkey · 07-04-2009, 03:39 PM

i have a core i7 920 and use as a utility to monitor when each of the 4 cores is being used.

i have noticed that very very seldom do all four cores get used and even more seldom does a core ever go above 20% or 40%. maybe this is normal and i don't get how multi-cores are supposed to work but i thought that when a program such as photoshop, lightroom, VLC (playing 1080p movies) or a game needs more power then ALL CORES would be used and it would show well over 50% usage.

some tasks take too long IMHO and the monitor shows the cores just around 5 or 10%. shouldn't they be at over 50% to speed things up?

is it possible to force core usuage at all?

07-04-2009, 03:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
liquidmonkey Silver Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 165	multi-core question???? i have a core i7 920 and use as a utility to monitor when each of the 4 cores is being used. i have noticed that very very seldom do all four cores get used and even more seldom does a core ever go above 20% or 40%. maybe this is normal and i don't get how multi-cores are supposed to work but i thought that when a program such as photoshop, lightroom, VLC (playing 1080p movies) or a game needs more power then ALL CORES would be used and it would show well over 50% usage. some tasks take too long IMHO and the monitor shows the cores just around 5 or 10%. shouldn't they be at over 50% to speed things up? is it possible to force core usuage at all? __________________ VISTA Ultimate SP2 64bit 2 x 24" LG Monitors Intel Core i7 920 with Xigmatek HDT-S1283 ASUS P6T WS PRO 12gigs of OCZ Gold XTC Triple Channel 6x2gig DDR3 1333MHz PC12800 XFX Nvidia GTX 260 core 216 Corsair TX750W Cooler Master 690 HDD Total = 4.5 TB