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Have you tried changing affinity?

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cics - This thread is very coincidental for me, as I've been in the process of building a new computer over the past couple of weeks, and even before I read this thread I was going through my computer making a lot of these same suggested tweaks.

Now, forgive me if you mentioned it already and I just missed it, but I think I have one more to add to the experimentation table. It might fall into the same category as making the Windows Explorer tweaks. I have a Core 2 Duo CPU, so I decided to try something. After I open foobar and begin to play a song, I stop it right away and then go into the task manager (CTRL-ALT-DEL). Then I click on the Processes tab. At this point, since I started foobar already, it shows up in the processes as well as the ASIO (exe) dll I am using. So, I right click on those two processes and change the affinity to have only CPU (0) checked. Then I start changing all the other processes to have the affinity on only CPU (1) checked. Some of the system processes you cannot change, but you can definitely change explorer.exe.

Anyway, as I said this is one for those who like to experiment. I think I can hear a difference, but haven't come to a definite conclusion yet. And, of course, what might make a difference on my system may not make one on someone else's.

So what do you think? Is this valid or just whack?

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