Three weeks into a clean install of Win 7 on my i7 machine Everything was fine, but there was that nagging feeling I'd forgotten a tweak or two. After doing a pretty heavy mix last week I noticed my CPU meter was a little quirky. Turns out I forgot to disable core parking!
 
Just a reminder if you have a machine with virtual cores, disable core parking it does matter.
 

emwhy
Just a reminder if you have a machine with virtual cores, disable core parking it does matter.

 
Maybe you could remind us how to do this.

From here:
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Windows-7-amp-Core-Parking-a-better-way-to-Turn-It-OFF-m1861804.aspx

I haven't seen this topic discussed in years, and that link is 4 years old!
 
Can anyone point to a recent article/forum thread that confirms this tweak is still necessary?
 
(I'm not arguing that it isn't -- I honestly don't know.  Again, just pointing out that for something so "necessary", it's barely discussed anymore).  

I can confirm the tweak is still necessary (so it must be true  )
Or google if you don't believe me.

Cheers...

I googled it and there seems to be quite some differences of opinion about it.

Here's an interesting link about it.

http://www.tweakhound.com...ad-tweak-core-parking/

mudgel
I googled it and there seems to be quite some differences of opinion about it.

Here's an interesting link about it.

http://www.tweakhound.com...ad-tweak-core-parking/

Yes, I Googled it too (Just like I did 4 years ago) and the only thing that's clear is that there's just as much confusion and debate about it now as there was then. 
 
That being said, many thanks for posting that link, mudgel.  The article explained why my i7-based system had no parked cores, even though I had never disabled core-parking (Under power management, my minimum processor state is set at 100%.  Not sure if I set it that way at some point, or if it's part of the High Performance profile I chose.  Regardless -- no registry tweaks or 3rd party utilities required!).

No confusion at my end, the results are very real, I only need to use my own eyes... Cheers...

Gents,
reading this thread starts to make me curious about "Core parking".
I found out that this option doesn´t have to be enabled (0 %,you know what I mean)
if in the energy options of windows (7- 64 bit here, 
is this the right english word?) are set to "highest perfomance."
Afaik the energy option"highest perfomance" is basicly still recommended for all daw´s.
 
Have fun 
Pragi

I have one drive on my system that I haven't replaced yet, it's a 1tb WD green drive (I know...I know) for backing up files, documents etc. Anyway, it doesn't like High Performance as a power option so I have to keep my setting at Balanced, thus core parking is an issue for me until I get around to replacing that drive.