Quick quad core performance question!

[Insomniator]

Hello everyone I currently have an e5200 @3.5, 4gb and 9600GSO's in SLI running Win 7 x64.

Just now I started converting a ~ 1 gigabyte .mkv file to a smaller Ipod touch format. Somewhat to my surprise, counterstrike source... and even a stupid small game like icy tower completely lag and can't be played. Would having a quad core cpu fix this? I would have guessed a dual would be enough... i mean.. what the hell would a single core do here.

 

[aigomorla]

yes

because CS isnt multi threaded.

You can set priority over CS, so it takes 2 working threads, and save the other 2 for encoding.

 

[Spikesoldier]

fire up taskmgr and

videoconverter.exe cpu core affinity 0
css.exe cpu core affinity 1

fixed

 

[MrK6]

fire up taskmgr and

videoconverter.exe cpu core affinity 0
css.exe cpu core affinity 1

fixed

I would try that as well. As long as you don't care how long it takes to finish the conversion, it should be fine.

 

[aigomorla]

fire up taskmgr and

videoconverter.exe cpu core affinity 0
css.exe cpu core affinity 1

fixed

no u still lag.

Because the OS requires 1, and while's he's encoding it will lag.

Also he's currently on a dual core, so it wouldnt give him any benifit.

The quadcore however will.

 

[ShawnD1]

Just now I started converting a ~ 1 gigabyte .mkv file to a smaller Ipod touch format. Somewhat to my surprise, counterstrike source... and even a stupid small game like icy tower completely lag and can't be played. Would having a quad core cpu fix this? I would have guessed a dual would be enough... i mean.. what the hell would a single core do here.

Set the priority of background tasks lower than that of foreground tasks. Here's a pic of me playing World of Warcraft while running Prime95 and OCCT:

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/8254/prime95wow.jpg

edit:
This only works if you have enough RAM. Once the system starts dipping into the swap file, no amount of tricks will stop the lag.

 

[MrK6]

no u still lag.

Because the OS requires 1, and while's he's encoding it will lag.

Also he's currently on a dual core, so it wouldnt give him any benifit.

The quadcore however will.

See below:

Set the priority of background tasks lower than that of foreground tasks. Here's a pic of me playing World of Warcraft while running Prime95 and OCCT:

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/8254/prime95wow.jpg

edit:
This only works if you have enough RAM. Once the system starts dipping into the swap file, no amount of tricks will stop the lag.

Exactly. Lock CS one core, put encoding on another with lower priority. OS tasks will also run on the second core and the encoding will use whatever is left. As I said, as long as you don't care how long it takes to convert, this is a great way to multitask with a dual core.

 

[aigomorla]

See below:

Exactly. Lock CS one core, put encoding on another with lower priority. OS tasks will also run on the second core and the encoding will use whatever is left. As I said, as long as you don't care how long it takes to convert, this is a great way to multitask with a dual core.

Oh so share the last core with the os and encoding.

LOL... thats gonna take a VERY VERY LONG TIME.

 

[Tsavo]

Oh so share the last core with the os and encoding.

LOL... thats gonna take a VERY VERY LONG TIME.

It'd almost be faster encoding it by hand. ^_^