@ Reaver83: With those BIOS tweaks, you just turned your inefficient Phenom II X6 CPU into a slightly more efficient Phenom II X4
- The first version of AMD Turbo Core that was added to X6 (Thuban) CPUs was a gimmick that didn't work properly. Disabling that crap actually improves performance in many situations.
- The 6MB L3 cache in Phenom II CPUs is exclusive. In X4 models, each core gets 1.5 MB of L3 cache. In X6 CPUs, you have only 1 MB per core. X4 CPUs have slightly better single threaded performance because of this.
About your other tweaks:
* Setting the affinity to Core0 and Core1 is a BAD idea. You *lose* performance by doing this.
* Setting the priority to "High" is also a bad idea. "Above Normal" is recommended if you're running a modern Windows OS (Win 7, 8.1, 10). "High" priority does more harm than good.
* About the CPU clock speed: You don't need more than 3.5 GHz if you're using the latest development build or the latest unstable version of Ishiiruka. Drop the CPU speed down to 3.5 GHz and set the voltage back to default. Less heat, less noise and *much* lower power consumption (because Cool'N'Quiet doesn't work properly when overclocked).
* Why use insane AA settings when you can bump up the IR (to 4x, for example) and use a lower AA setting like 2xAA or Ishiiruka's downsampling filter? It looks so much better that way.
* Per-Pixel Lighting: You may want to turn that off to reduce stuttering.
* Try the latest Ishiiruka build and *enable* Fast EFB Access. Now turn on CPU->EFB Access as well. You can finally experience those (CPU-intensive) EFB effects without performance loss.
- The first version of AMD Turbo Core that was added to X6 (Thuban) CPUs was a gimmick that didn't work properly. Disabling that crap actually improves performance in many situations.
- The 6MB L3 cache in Phenom II CPUs is exclusive. In X4 models, each core gets 1.5 MB of L3 cache. In X6 CPUs, you have only 1 MB per core. X4 CPUs have slightly better single threaded performance because of this.
About your other tweaks:
* Setting the affinity to Core0 and Core1 is a BAD idea. You *lose* performance by doing this.
* Setting the priority to "High" is also a bad idea. "Above Normal" is recommended if you're running a modern Windows OS (Win 7, 8.1, 10). "High" priority does more harm than good.
* About the CPU clock speed: You don't need more than 3.5 GHz if you're using the latest development build or the latest unstable version of Ishiiruka. Drop the CPU speed down to 3.5 GHz and set the voltage back to default. Less heat, less noise and *much* lower power consumption (because Cool'N'Quiet doesn't work properly when overclocked).
* Why use insane AA settings when you can bump up the IR (to 4x, for example) and use a lower AA setting like 2xAA or Ishiiruka's downsampling filter? It looks so much better that way.
* Per-Pixel Lighting: You may want to turn that off to reduce stuttering.
* Try the latest Ishiiruka build and *enable* Fast EFB Access. Now turn on CPU->EFB Access as well. You can finally experience those (CPU-intensive) EFB effects without performance loss.