CPU usage

[Mew]

Real temp and task manager shows different cpu usage, which is more accurate? 

[Floppy Kant Fish]

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I would assume task manager.

[DarkEnergy]

I would think Task Manager would be more accurate.

[Mew]

I would assume task manager.

 

 

I would think Task Manager would be more accurate.

 

 

That's what I would think, but running a single threaded cinebench test, task manager doesn't show 1 core pegged at 100% and the rest at near idle, it uses all 4 cores instead, according to taskman.

[dragoon20005]

task manager is inaccurate

 

you need to use other programs to measure the CPU usage

[Floppy Kant Fish]

That's what I would think, but running a single threaded cinebench test, task manager doesn't show 1 core pegged at 100% and the rest at near idle, it uses all 4 cores instead, according to taskman.

 

Im going to assume its because of a cpu task balancing that's going on. The graphs should not peak with just one task.

 

EDIT: I can repeat what you have done with prime 95.

[Mew]

Im going to assume its because of a cpu task balancing that's going on. The graphs should not peak with just one task.

 

EDIT: I can repeat what you have done with prime 95.

 

Hmmm, interesting, happens to me too with p95. So Windows 8 is capable of taking a single threaded task and spreading it across all cores? I don't recall windows 7 having that behavior and I'm too lazy to install windows 7 to test this lol

[Floppy Kant Fish]

Hmmm, interesting, happens to me too with p95. So Windows 8 is capable of taking a single threaded task and spreading it across all cores? I don't recall windows 7 having that behavior and I'm too lazy to install windows 7 to test this lol

 

I don't think its a 7 v 8 thing, Its a Intel technology i believe, I would have to do more research to figure out whats happening exactly. Amd made a huge push for heterogeneous architecture, wouldn't be surprised if intel followed or was the leader in that movement.