Bitsum ParkControl Pro 5.0.3.8 | Portable | RePack by D!akov

Optimization
11 April 2024, 09:32

Bitsum developed ParkControl because core parking settings are hidden in Windows, but can make such a large difference on performance, particularly when there are bursting CPU bound loads (the most common type).

Features

Core Parking is ‘green’. Performance is not.

For bursting loads — the most realistic real-world type of CPU load — people simply need their cores ready to execute, as Intel noted in the Skylake generation when it took back control from the OS, validating what Bitsum had been saying for years!
(p.s. Dynamic Boost helps you retain eco-friendliness when not using your PC)

Do not use direct registry edits if at all possible, especially a random one from some web site!

If you ignore this, at least use our RegMerge to see what it is doing. But better to use ParkControl or our guidance on this page.

ParkControl is free, but the Dynamic Boost (auto-switch of power plans on idle/active) requires ParkControl Pro.

None of this came ‘free’ or just magically happened. Please help support our efforts by buying a Pro license! They are not expensive. Thank you for your consideration.

Key Features

Core Parking

Core Parking is a sleep state (C6) supported by most newer x86 processors, and newer editions of Windows. Core Parking dynamically disables CPU cores in an effort to conserve power when idle. Disabled cores are re-enabled as the CPU load increases once again. This technology is very similar to frequency scaling, in that it seeks to throttle the CPU when idle.
The problem is that Window’s default power profiles are configured far too aggressively when it comes to core parking, especially on workstations. Their interest was in conserving energy, even if this meant marginally decreasing performance. A number of complex parameters control when a core should be parked, and Microsoft tuned heavily towards power savings.
The core parking settings in Windows are implemented as parameters of power plans (aka power profiles). That means you can, for example, disable core parking for the High Performance power plan, but leave it enabled for other plans. And that is exactly the desired tweak for most users: disable parking only for high performance power plans.

Efficacy

Empirical evidence shows that disabling core parking can make a real difference in system performance. There are many factors that will determine how efficacious it will be for any given system, including the CPU type, application load, and user behavior. However, we find that Windows is often over-aggressive in its core parking, resulting in excess latency as cores are unparked to accommodate bursting loads (the most common type of CPU load).
In our tests, we’ve found AMD processors benefit most from disabling core parking. This is perhaps due to the dramatic difference in the way AMD processors share (hardware) computational resources between logical cores. Microsoft optimized for Intel’s HyperThreading, which has much less capable secondary cores. AMD’s secondary logical cores are near full CPUs.
YMMV, but if we didn’t see real and substantial performance gains after disabling core parking, we wouldn’t have authored this utility.

Safety

These tweaks are entirely safe for any PC that is constructed properly. The only way that they could possibly seem to cause some change in behavior is if the PC has overheating issues. In such an event, those issues would be seen regardless of these tweaks by simply placing a sustained high load on the CPU.

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