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    Intel T8100 IDA Confussion...

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by t30power, Jun 7, 2009.

  1. t30power

    t30power Notebook Deity

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    I noticed on RMClock my C2D T8100 last multiplier (11.0x) is on IDA Mode, and supposedly this makes working only one core, so in the Monitoring tab it shows 50% CPU Load when encoding a .AVI file on Xilisoft converter and it's the same in RMClock:

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    Also why in RMClock it shows the 10X multiplier being used instead of the 11.0x which supposedly it's IDA.

    How do I make the CPU to encode with both cores fully utilizing the CPU resources?

    Thanks in advance :cool:
     
    t30power, Jun 7, 2009
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  2. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    IDA is the temporary acceleration of one core when the other core is idle. In my experience this happens so rarely that IDA is irrelevant.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Jun 8, 2009
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  3. IntelUser

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    Unlike the Turbo Mode on the Core i7 CPUs, the IDA feature relies much more on OS to manage so the performance increase won't be reliable. Only way to really make it work reliably is forcing only one core to run an application.
     
    IntelUser, Jun 9, 2009
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