Cpu parked?

[tmcthree]

Well, aren't I being demanding today....anywoo

So I'm all installed with my new 3770k and I wanted to see what temperature it was running at.

So I ran cortemps and it only seemed to show 2 cores. Odd I thought, but maybe it's calibrated to my old amd cpu so I downloaded and ran realtemps, which showed the same. So I opened resource monitor and it says that cpu 1 and 3 are "parked". However there does seem to be some activity with them. So I'm a bit confused.

I looked on the internet and the only references I could find to this issue talked about going into the registry and changing things. Surely, that can't possibly be what microsoft had in mind for multicore processors?

 

[TheOneHalf]

Well clearly it is. It could be related to your power settings, check those. Otherwise I wouldn't know what it is.

 

[airdeano]

power saving mode.. if you are not demanding 4-cylinder power, why pay the price in energy for 1-cylinder work?

i'd bet your getting throtted voltage too with 2-cores sounds like a green thing.

airdeano

 

[tmcthree]

Well I've done a fresh install of windows 7 and that seems to have sorted the problem. I can see all the temps now, and although some of the cores still say parked, they are all active when it matters. 9.3 on cinebench!

 

[MaXiMiZe]

Does "parked" essentially mean not in operation/disabled?

 

[airdeano]

Does "parked" essentially mean not in operation/disabled?

yes.. how much power do you need idling or web browsing?

airdeano