KVR Audio

aegean · Post by **aegean** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:44 pm

I have several computers and I want to try forcing my oldest one to no-throttle-mode/100% speed. It runs Vista and has a core-2 duo 3.0ghz. I don't know if there is any performance/stability to gain that way, it's more of an experiment. I think a utility is needed for throttle adjustment, any recommendations or instructions?

Note that I'm not talking about overclocking, just forcing the CPU to factory speed all the time rather than the idling at 66 percent clock speed.

UltraJv · Post by **UltraJv** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:51 pm

Set windows to high performance. No util needed.

cron · Post by **cron** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 6:08 pm

I also use Windows' High Performance power plan for music. The system is usually very good at instantly responding to demand when using the Balanced power plan, but for some reason it just doesn't register when I start to stress my DAW. The core speed will happily doodle away wherever it feels like (presumably in response to demand elsewhere in the system) while the DAW glitches under CPU load. Setting the power plan to High Performance gets me a solid 4.5GHz (my i5 is overclocked) all the way.

Kaine · Post by **Kaine** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 10:17 am

Windows high performance doesn't give you access to core parking settings however, without making a reg tweak first.

http://www.coderbag.com/programming-c/d ... ng-utility

aegean · Post by **aegean** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 4:48 pm

OK thanks

jdnz · Post by **jdnz** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:57 pm

my old core2duo e8400 would still throttle even on high performance power plan (win7) - known issue apparently. I used throttlestop to totallt prevent throttling : http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/22 ... stop-6-00/

JCJR · Post by **JCJR** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 8:01 pm

Talking ancient history, but some computers of yesteryear, especially laptops, relied on throttling to keep from burning out the computer. They just didn't have heat sinking capacity to run full speed except in spurts, and if you went to extraordinary hacking to defeat the throttling, the machine would fry pretty soon afterwards. I had a mac laptop like that years ago. You didn't disable throttling unless you wanted to burn it up and be rid of it.

Dunno if any modern iron is built that crazy.

Throttling