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itayt
Journeyman III
‎06-10-2020 05:04 AM

3600x cores never go to sleep anymore?

I'm a fairly new owner of a 3600x (motherboard: B450 Tomahawk Max) and for the short time I've been using it some of the cores used to go to sleep when I wasn't doing anything serious in the system. As of a few days ago however, none of the cores are going to sleep anymore (It may be because of a chipset driver update but I can't say for sure).

Is it normal?

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qbtheslayer
Challenger
‎06-10-2020 09:20 AM

Depends on how many processes are running...  my cores never sleep.  But if I disable everything that starts with the system they do.

QB

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sima86
Journeyman III
‎06-10-2020 10:32 AM

Windows will distribute all background tasks evenly on every logical core. This is a nasty behaviour. I use a software named "process lasso". So i can bind all background tasks on 2 logical cores (1 physical core). In addition this software switches to energy save profile when your pc is idle. This will save a lot of energy.

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