Downloaded and installed fine. Registration accomplished as instructed. Decent interface. Make sure you choose "expert" to install though. Default install wants to change your home page AND give you a free toolbar. Not thankful for that, but thankful to Ashampoo and GAOTD for the opportunity to successfully try this software on dual core HP G60 243DX running XP 64 bit. Peace.

ygoloeht  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+136)

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Useless program. No practical boost was observed by me. Also downloaders be aware that Ashampoo's servers were recently breached and the security the provide on their site for your personal information is more or less ZERO. So don't share your personal info with this company. Btw, Ashampoo is awesome at spamming so never share your e-mail. Man i almost received 3 mails daily before I marked them as spam. Even their CEO's birthday is used as a marketing gimmick. So be careful.

Deir  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+113)

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From their homepage under the section "details".

You can set the “priority” in five levels to adjust the amount of processor power each program gets. You can also specify how many processor cores each program gets to use.

Ten dollar software for something I could manage myself with ctrl+shift+esc and 3 clicks.

Thanks, GOTD

LukeWarm  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+108)

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Typcial...under the "How would you improve Ashampoo core tuner" - not a single comment (out of 8 so far) about how the program actually performs.
When I went to install it I was expecting a 100mb+ file download - typical of Ashampoo products. So I was surprised it was under 10mb.
I was skeptical about the claims of what this program would do.
So before installing I ran Corel Video Studio 3 and started encoding a slideshow, with windows task manager running. Both CPU cores were around 90% during encoding. After installing this software, did the same task, and one CPU core was running about 60%, the other around 40%. (I did not make any changes at all in the configuration of Core Tuner).
I rebooted my system, started the same video encoding withOUT Core Tuner running and both CPUs were in the 90 to 95% busy range. After starting Core Tuner, ran the video encode again and this time the cpu usage showed around 55 to 60% on each core.

So my conclusion - this software is probably meant for fine tuning the process priority on your system. Which I didn't try to setup, I just wanted to see what it would do by default (because I had serious doubts about it claimed to do from the description, and really just wanted to see if it was BS). So for the average user, it may end up degrading whatever process you are running. Thats what happened for me.
If you are going to use this software I would recommend BEFORE installing it to try some cpu intensive task such as video encoding, and see how long it takes to complete. Then install/run this software, and do the same video encoding task (or whatever you choose) and see if there is a performance improvement, or the opposite where it degrades performance.
Hopefully someone can post some positive results about the actual performance gain that this software helps achieve.

Russell  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+82)

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I'm a PC tech and don't see the use of this software unless one is running XP, since Vista and 7, and most new software, already have multi-core management. It's another program running in the background using your computer's resources. Can somebody prove me wrong?

shegeek72  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+59)

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