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Title: cpu at 50% ?
Post by: Saber on July 17, 2007, 05:28:05 AM

When aces high is running my CPU is at 50%, should it be running at about
98% or so? Here is my System Information.

sony vaio vgc-rb47g


Processor  Intel Pentium 4 3 GHz    
 
Operating System  Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005 Edition  
 
Processor Speed  3 GHz  

Bus Speed  800 MHz  
 
Video Output Interface  PCI Express  
Memory
RAM Technology  DDR SDRAM  
 
Installed RAM 2 GB  
 
Installed Video Memory  128 MB  
 
Supported RAM Speeds  400 MHz  
 
Installed Cache Memory  2 MB  

Graphic Processor  7800 gt, 256mb
 

 

  Saber

Title: cpu at 50% ?
Post by: The Fugitive on July 17, 2007, 06:21:49 AM

Skuzzy says that there is a problem with the way dualcores are reporting CPU usage, so while it says 50% its not  :)

Title: cpu at 50% ?
Post by: Skuzzy on July 17, 2007, 06:59:59 AM

50% means 100% on one core.  Take all the percentages and multiple by the number of cores you have in your computer.

In Microsoft's world, an application can only run on one CPU, so the Task Manager assumes the most an application can take, in the case of a dual-core CPU, is 50%.

Title: cpu at 50% ?
Post by: Kermit de frog on July 17, 2007, 12:11:14 PM

Saber DOES NOT HAVE A DUO CORE.



He has a Pentium 4 w/ HT

Title: cpu at 50% ?
Post by: Skuzzy on July 17, 2007, 01:19:34 PM

It is treated as a dual core by Windows.  HT is nearly dual-core, but not quite.

Title: cpu at 50% ?
Post by: Kermit de frog on July 18, 2007, 12:54:02 PM

Interesting.  Thanks for the clarification.

BTW Saber, your specs so far seem like good choices in hardware.