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dual core managing?

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by jamesxross

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I have a dell inspiron 6400 with a T2300 dual core processor (1.6GHz) is there some sort of program that will allow me to control what processes run on which core? I play World of Warcraft, and it would be great if I could have my background stuff running on one while having WoW running on the other. Please help :)

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by retro77

Like Internet browser, internet radio applet.

by older mycroft

Meaning Windows (as background stuff).

Chances are WOW uses both cores anyway.

by jamesrl

As far as games go not intensive at all really.

You will get more bang for the buck by turning off unneeded programs before you run WOW.

Try turning off things like MSN messenger, Quicktime, etc., to free up CPU and memory.
I even turn off my spyware and anti-virus programs, cause right after the game I will restart to enable them anyways.

You can go to task manager, processes and chose individual processes and mess with the priority.

I do recall you can assign CPU as well, can't check it here as I am on a single core PC. But my workstation at home is Xeon HT cpu, I could check there.

James

by jamesxross

thanks, james. i looked a little closer at the task manager, and i found where to set the cpu affinity (which cpu the process(es) are allowed to run on).

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