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andyvee

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DPC latency
« on: May 19, 2011, 10:25:55 am »
Hi all  ,

Just to check with some of the guru's here ( Morning Mantis  ;D )

I just found some probably old info and found that disabling HPET would help with DPC timings so thought i'd give it a go . With HPET on i was ~ 150 micro secs , with it disabled i'm < 20 micro secs .
This seems pretty good to me but are there any potential downsides to doing this ( running win7ult 64 ) ? .

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Re: DPC latency
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2011, 12:11:04 pm »
Hi

To be fair I think the only downside is that there might be a slight performance hit but from my experiments it doesn't seem to make a lot of difference one way or the other.
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Re: DPC latency
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2011, 01:05:20 pm »
Well what i've noticed after a little bit of trying it on/off is that the micro-stutter i got with my sli setup has gone with it off completely , turn it back on and there it is again so i'll leave it off  ;D .

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Re: DPC latency
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2011, 01:21:36 pm »
Yes certainly worth trying but please let me know how you get on with it disabled as it is not something that tends to get much testing.
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Re: DPC latency
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2011, 10:35:56 am »
Well i gave it a good go but have re-enabled it for now . what i found was that although it seems to remove the odd stutter it had an adverse effect on my keyboard/mouse input where it felt like your not really in control in an fps , turning it back on and all back to " normal " . Maybe something to play with later  ??? .

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Re: DPC latency
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2011, 12:31:19 pm »
Interesting anyway. I didn't notice that when I was playing, I mean experimenting and testing,  but maybe I just didn't notice at the time.
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy