CPU Optimization for using R2 as workstation(from Windows 7)

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    • #50133

      That’s odd, you should not have such issues..

      Did you follow the guide in full? Adjust for performance and applications, enable required services etc?

    • #59952
      Anonymous

        That’s odd, you should not have such issues..

        Did you follow the guide in full? Adjust for performance and applications, enable required services etc?

      • #50134

        Yes I did. The registry from Windows 7 fixed it. I mean, normally you won’t notice, especially on any CPUs other than Nehalem. But it is a big different because Windows 7 do quite a bit of optimization for Nehalem. SMT-parking and Turbo Boost management, for example. By default on R2, it won’t do any of these because the R2 development team assume that most of the tasks you do on server is multi-thread, don’t require instant jump from lowest P-State to highest, etc. All of these add together make quite a different.

      • #59953
        Anonymous

          Yes I did. The registry from Windows 7 fixed it. I mean, normally you won’t notice, especially on any CPUs other than Nehalem. But it is a big different because Windows 7 do quite a bit of optimization for Nehalem. SMT-parking and Turbo Boost management, for example. By default on R2, it won’t do any of these because the R2 development team assume that most of the tasks you do on server is multi-thread, don’t require instant jump from lowest P-State to highest, etc. All of these add together make quite a different.

        • #50135

          Any body tried this yet ?

          Thanks

        • #59954
          Anonymous

            Any body tried this yet ?

            Thanks

          • #50136

            hey, could someone post these registry keys?

          • #59955
            Anonymous

              hey, could someone post these registry keys?

            • #50137

              Just wanted to bring this up again because it’s important for people with Core i5 750 processors too.

              I spent forever tweaking the BIOS trying to figure out why the Turbo Boost functionality wasn’t working – changing the power plan to Performance from Balanced fixed the problem. Since the i5 750 doesn’t do hyper threading, I don’t care about the SMT parking functionality, so I can’t say if these registry settings help with that or not.

              But this is just a heads up for Core i5 750 users. Cheers!

            • #59956
              Anonymous

                Just wanted to bring this up again because it’s important for people with Core i5 750 processors too.

                I spent forever tweaking the BIOS trying to figure out why the Turbo Boost functionality wasn’t working – changing the power plan to Performance from Balanced fixed the problem. Since the i5 750 doesn’t do hyper threading, I don’t care about the SMT parking functionality, so I can’t say if these registry settings help with that or not.

                But this is just a heads up for Core i5 750 users. Cheers!

              • #50138

                I imported these settings, didnt seem to change much really.
                Then again, i have a quad core machine, with each core at 4 gig, with 8gig of ram, so that MAY make a difference.

              • #59957
                Anonymous

                  I imported these settings, didnt seem to change much really.
                  Then again, i have a quad core machine, with each core at 4 gig, with 8gig of ram, so that MAY make a difference.

                • #50139

                  Thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for. For the past weeks I’ve been switching between the High Performance plan when I’m at my computer and the Power Saving plan when I go away for longer than 10 minutes, because with the Balanced plan Intel Turbo Boost wasn’t working. I’ve installed the registry entries now though, and Balanced correctly switches between 1.6GHz when I’m doing nothing and 2.9GHz (for multi threaded apps) or 3.0GHz (for single threaded apps) respectively, when I’m doing stuff (baseline freq is 2.6GHz for my Xeons). Awesome!

                • #59958
                  Anonymous

                    Thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for. For the past weeks I’ve been switching between the High Performance plan when I’m at my computer and the Power Saving plan when I go away for longer than 10 minutes, because with the Balanced plan Intel Turbo Boost wasn’t working. I’ve installed the registry entries now though, and Balanced correctly switches between 1.6GHz when I’m doing nothing and 2.9GHz (for multi threaded apps) or 3.0GHz (for single threaded apps) respectively, when I’m doing stuff (baseline freq is 2.6GHz for my Xeons). Awesome!

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