a Question on Quad core usage on old games

Firstly, all cores will be the same speed. In BIOS make sure SpeedStep is off & any Core Throttling that saves power.

It will spread the load across the cores, but some older games could dominate just the 1st core. Also, you can clock the CPU to an easy 3Ghz & any slowdown using the 1 core will dissappear. I Seriously doubt you'll get any slowdowns at all but you'll want your monies worth out of the CPU. Its VERY OC'able when you come to play DOOM3, COD4 or whatever takes your fancy.

Try this: 1) Add in your GTR2 properties shortcut and in the commandline put +fullproc to see if it uses more than 25% of your CPU. If not, then 2) load GTR2, press Alt+Tab at the same time. Go to task manager Ctrl+Alt+Del (Processes). Right click GTR2.exe, then go to set affinity. Put a check in cpu-1 because cpu-0 should already be ticked. You can do No.2 to any game.

Also make sure you patch all the games to latest versions as they will improve support for multiple cores, widescreen & with DOOM3 1.3 patch you get EAX hardware support provided you have installed ALchemy on a XFI soundcard.

Firstly, all cores will be the same speed. In BIOS make sure SpeedStep is off & any Core Throttling that saves power.

It will spread the load across the cores, but some older games could dominate just the 1st core. Also, you can clock the CPU to an easy 3Ghz & any slowdown using the 1 core will dissappear. I Seriously doubt you'll get any slowdowns at all but you'll want your monies worth out of the CPU. Its VERY OC'able when you come to play DOOM3, COD4 or whatever takes your fancy.

Try this: 1) Add in your GTR2 properties shortcut and in the commandline put +fullproc to see if it uses more than 25% of your CPU. If not, then 2) load GTR2, press Alt+Tab at the same time. Go to task manager Ctrl+Alt+Del (Processes). Right click GTR2.exe, then go to set affinity. Put a check in cpu-1 because cpu-0 should already be ticked. You can do No.2 to any game.

Also make sure you patch all the games to latest versions as they will improve support for multiple cores, widescreen & with DOOM3 1.3 patch you get EAX hardware support provided you have installed ALchemy on a XFI soundcard.

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