Quick Question

[Lays]

If you have a dual slot motherboard, say a socket 2011 one.  Can you make it so one CPU was playing games etc, then the second CPU was encoding video for a livestream?

 

Also, can you use 2011 chips like 4930k / 3930k /3970x /3960x 4960x in it? Or only xeons?

[DoubleY]

It should work. You can just set the affinity of cores 1-12 (assuming you have a 6 core Xeon with Hyper-Threading) To game XYZ, and set cores 13-24 (again, assuming 6 core Xeon with Hyper-Threading) to OBS or Xsplit.

 

All the that is assuming recognizes all 24 cores are recognized by Windows

 

As for the second part of the question, I am not sure. However you would think that all 2011 chips should work.

[WoodenMarker]

You can do that with any multithreaded cpu by allocating certain processes to certain threads.

[Lays]

You can do that with any multithreaded cpu by allocating certain processes to certain threads.

 

 

So you could set all the hyperthreads to stream, and use the physical cores for the game?  Then again, with things like shadowplay this is kinda irrelevant now :q

[DoubleY]

So you could set all the hyperthreads to stream, and use the physical cores for the game? 

Hyper threads are digital threads, not physical if I am mistaken. Meaning Hyper Threading is just a software thing, not hardware. 

 

 

I don't think just Hyper Threading can encode a video.

[FloRolf]

So you could set all the hyperthreads to stream, and use the physical cores for the game?  Then again, with things like shadowplay this is kinda irrelevant now :q

 

No you just start both and the cpu(s) do their job.

 

E.g. a game won't take 100% load from a single cpu.

[Lays]

Hyper threads are digital threads, not physical if I am mistaken. Meaning Hyper Threading is just a software thing, not hardware. 

 

 

I don't think just Hyper Threading can encode a video.

 

 

He just said setting certain threads to certain tasks, and in task manager it says 12 threads, I'm assuming you could set the "non-core" threads to do it

[JAKEBAB]

95% sure only xeons can work on dual socket motherboards.

[WoodenMarker]

So you could set all the hyperthreads to stream, and use the physical cores for the game?  Then again, with things like shadowplay this is kinda irrelevant now :q

All the cores are just threads. There are no separate 'normal threads' that use physical cores and 'hyperthreads' where more threads are tacked on. Each core that has HT basically just runs 2 threads. 

[Ciccioo]

dual CPU is a feature just for certain xeons: if you look up at, say, the 4960x specs on the intel website you will see "max CPU configuration = 1"

so you will need xeons to get all dem cores