I know I've seen talk of this before, and I'm wondering how and if core parking effects my laptop performance. It presently appears to be enabled as I've been watching the CPU resource monitor to evaluate my current situation to decide if I need to get a new system or can tweak this one better, somehow, to maximize performance[some of that already having been done].

I found an older post on this very topic:  http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=1861804

Anybody here with an i7 laptop using core parking turned off? It appears to be for better battery management, but does it also cause temperature changes and overheating perhaps?

Here is a simple but effective method for enabling all cores at all times: http://engrjpo.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/disable-cpu-core-parking/

The question remains as to how much, or if disabling core parking is beneficial with a laptop that isn't running on battery power. I'm trying to get some definitive answers from DAW power users.

do not do it period.. its old and pointless now especially on a laptop
turn off the acpi battery...

Kreative


The question remains as to how much, or if disabling core parking is beneficial with a laptop that isn't running on battery power. I'm trying to get some definitive answers from DAW power users.

I tested all this kind of tweaking when there was some heated debate going round whether it was worthwhile on older i7 chips.  I don't know even if there was any benefit there  but since I've been running a 2nd Generation i7 Sandy bridge chip I concluded there is nothing to be gained except higher temperatures and brain ache.

I run with a 64 samples buffer all day long without pops or glitches and power to burn so I figured why bother.  All my system power settings are the BIOS (optimised/turbo) defaults with only slight tweaks to the Windows High Performance power settings to prevent stuff like USB from auto-sleeping.

Thanks for your input. it was a heated debate that seemed to go 'round in circles. I found that I eliminated some of my audio and resource headaches by reducing some background tasks that were giving me intermittent glitches. I might benefit from a second or third gen chipset, but for now have what I have to work with.

Two issues: rise time, thread allocation

Most users will never notice the need for these two issues to be addressed. Except when they interfere with a specific demanding task.

Because of the speed of current computers users are usually not aware of all the auto updates, and little wait times. Consequently the comments about doing no tweaking with w7.

But, I surmise those who do no tweaking are also the ones who experience drop-outs, stutters, clicks,... Especially when working with large projects.

And they then complain that Sonar,...  is to blame when really it is the auto-defrag , updates for windows, adobe, java, AV,.... that they refuse to disable.

I am an old dude. My approach is to wring every last bit of performance from the box before I replace any componant.

And I do not want the defragger starting and interferring with my happiness.

So we have a consensus on core parking. Not a problem.

Is there agreement on disabling TurboBoost?

jcschild


do not do it period.. its old and pointless now especially on a laptop
turn off the acpi battery...

Why do you say we shouldn't turn off the core parking on desktop workstations?