Quick CPU

Quick CPU (formerly known as Core Parking Manager v3) is a small application that was designed to fine-tune and monitor CPU performance, power and voltage settings such as: Core Parking, Frequency Scaling, Turbo Boost, C-States, Speed Shift, and FIVR Control as well as making other adjustments. Below you’ll find all the information about how it works, how to interpret application data and settings, and how to make these adjustments. Disable CPU Cores to save power!

Back in a day, most computers were desktop machines with the main goal for the hardware, to offer the absolute best performance and there was no real need for technologies such as SpeedStep, Turbo Boost, etc.

If your system has Intel CPU code name Skylake or greater with HWP (Intel Speed Shift) enabled by default, please follow the link below to find out more about the performance adjustment details and differences Performance adjustment on HWP (Intel Speed Shift) enabled systems. Download and install Quick CPU for Windows PC today!

The functionality of this application allows for you to control the number of CPU cores that need to be enabled or disabled (or you can simply enable all the cores at all times, see explanations on how it works below) based on your personal requirements, also now by looking at CPU graph you can tell if the specific core is enabled or disabled. This information is also available in the CPU performance tab under “Enabled cores” and “Parked cores”. This is real-time info, so you don’t have to press the “Refresh” button to find out the current status.

CPU frequency scaling is a feature that enables the operating system to scale the CPU frequency up or down to try and match supply to demand, delivering CPU performance when necessary, or saving energy when possible. Similar to Core Parking OS is trying to scale CPU frequency dynamically based on the system load. The index for this control works similarly to Core parking. On specific detail about the frequency scaling is that even if you set an index to 100%, the Quick CPU app will increase (and keep) the frequency up to the CPU base frequency level, and still use dynamic scaling for any extra performance

During the normal system load CPU in your system operates at a standard clock speed (which indicates its overall performance). In fact, if some heavy lifting is required (considering power usage) Turbo Boost kicks in increasing CPU clock frequency for the duration of the task. By setting TurboBoost index to its maximum value CPU will try to provide performance greater than the performance level corresponding to the Processor base frequency at all times.

Features and Highlights

• Performance graph for each core. Displays if the core is Active or Parked
• Adjustable size for the individual CPU graph
• Real time counter to display the number of active vs parked cores
• Adjustable CPU core parking settings
• Adjustable CPU frequency scaling settings
• Adjustable CPU turbo boost settings
• Real time C-State residency indicators and configuration
• Real time CPU speed
• Real time CPU utilization
• Real time CPU temperature
• System memory profile
• System power output
• System power state settings support (AC/DC)
• System power plan support
• Application updates
• Changes are applied on the fly. NO NEED TO RESTART

Note: Quick CPU app requires .NET Framework.