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    My G1S Prefers the 2nd Core?!?!?!

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by metril, Aug 9, 2007.

  1. metril

    metril Notebook Deity

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    Hey guys. I am using a Vista sidebar gadget that monitors the usage of both my cores. Unfortunately, task manager shows the same utilization for both cores when I know that it is different. Anyway, I got a multimeter, search for it on the Vista gadget gallery, and it seems like my G1S prefers my 2nd core. The 2nd core usage is always higher than the first. and sometimes is being utilized 25% more than the first core.


    Any ideas? It's on fairly new install of Vista Ultimate and no spyware/virsus on the system. I've done scans and I haven't gone to any crack/pr0n/wares/suspicious sites. Only been to Avast.com, download.com, hardocp.com, guildwars.com, and these forums.

    Any ideas?
     
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  2. MrWhereItsAt

    MrWhereItsAt Notebook Evangelist

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    Maybe Vista pre-allocates Core 1 to certain types of programs/operations that you typically haven't been using..?
     
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  3. metril

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    I checked task manager and all the processes are allowed to use both cores. But, what do we gain by having programs/operations we haven't been using allocated to the 2nd core? I thought the OS uses both cores equally and starts shifting processes around when a certain process needs to fully utilize a core, i.e. 100% load.
     
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  4. The Forerunner

    The Forerunner Notebook Virtuoso

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    No it will use one core when it has to. It saves more energy that way. When an app is single threaded then using one core makes more sense, because of less heat and battery life. Nothing to worry about thats normal.
     
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    What I am saying is that when neither core is fully utilized, my 2nd is more used than my 1st core. The first core will be at 10% and the second will be at 20%.
     
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