Why doesn't anyone write a way to fake cores?

[P4man]

Yeah, you gotta get the latest and install them by hand. I use:

Seems like I better not. Works fine with 11.3 or whatever I have. Pretty much no CPU load at all.

[DeathAndTaxes]

The shitty thing is that  if you have a decent CPU the "CPU big" is costing a lot of wasted wattage.

Restricting CGMiner to a single core (@ 100%) reduced power consumption at the wall by 40W.  Make me think we would save another ~10W if it had no CPU bug.

Is there any way to setup an "automatic CPU afinnity?".  i.e. anytime program "CGMINER.EXE" launches it is restricted to core #3?

[deslok]

The shitty thing is that  if you have a decent CPU the "CPU big" is costing a lot of wasted wattage.

Restricting CGMiner to a single core (@ 100%) reduced power consumption at the wall by 40W.  Make me think we would save another ~10W if it had no CPU bug.

Is there any way to setup an "automatic CPU afinnity?".  i.e. anytime program "CGMINER.EXE" launches it is restricted to core #3?

The closest thing to that that comes to mind would be disableing the cores in the bios, although someone could probably cook up a script to set a program to core4 anytime it's launched

[jkminkov]

The shitty thing is that  if you have a decent CPU the "CPU big" is costing a lot of wasted wattage.

Restricting CGMiner to a single core (@ 100%) reduced power consumption at the wall by 40W.  Make me think we would save another ~10W if it had no CPU bug.

Is there any way to setup an "automatic CPU afinnity?".  i.e. anytime program "CGMINER.EXE" launches it is restricted to core #3?

for win7, use shortcut like that:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start /affinity 2 /d  C:\bitcoin\phoenix-1.60 C:\bitcoin\phoenix-1.60\phoenix.exe -u http://user:pass@localhost:8332 -k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS AGGRESSION=12 BFI_INT WORKSIZE=256 -q 1

affinity 2 is 3rd core

[DeathAndTaxes]

Awesome jkminkov  thanks.

[FalconFour]

Hmm... I see people haven't heard of this utility.
*hhrrnnnggghhh*

http://mion.faireal.net/BES/

*splat*

There 'ya go kids, have a blast. It's a process CPU-throttling application. Yours to keep.

[c_k]

On Catalyst 11.8 drivers I get a drop in hashrate in cgminer when I throttle the CPU with BES.

Catalyst 11.9 drivers will be out in a few days anyway

[DeathAndTaxes]

I have found jkminov script above to be very effective.  It sets affinity to a single core limiting power consumption.

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start /affinity 2 /d  <normal miner command line goes here>

One thing that may be confusing is that the cores are in powers of 2
1 = core 1
2 = core 2
4 = core 3
8 = core 4
16 = core 5
32 = core 6

The reason this is done is for people who want to set affinity to 2+ cores at same time.  For example affinity 3 would set affinity to core 1 & 2.  Obviously we don't want to do that but just be aware of how it works.