Windows 7 x64 and DES advanced - just a heads up from a recent issue

[Sueisfine]

Hey guys.

I ran into an issue recently and just wanted to give a heads up about it. It might help other people which might be running into the same situation.

I was using DES advanced on my gigabyte board and all of a sudden I noticed my pc got really slower in games and such. Ran the WEI tool and noticed my CPU and memory score had dropped dramatically (to about half the score it usually gets). Started to get scared :S

Was bumping my head trying to figure out what might have happened and then I remembered that earlier in the day I had changed my power plan in Windows from "Balanced" to "High Performance". So... i went back to that and reverted that change and bam! it was working normal again! even WEI got the normal scores again.

So bottom line, don't use DES advanced and the "High Performance" power plan together. It will throttle down your CPU speed. Both softwares conflict and are not compatible. I should have informed myself better first because it kinda makes sense since that power plan basically disables EIST and DES on the other hand relies on it...

So here you go. Hopefully someone in the same situation can find this post and it might help

Cheers!

[Dark Mantis]

Hi

Thanks for the heads up as I am sure it will help other members. This is the sort of problem that I find with these bundled programs and is why I don't use any of them. I just find they encourage all sorts of issues which I don't need.

[FoLmEr]

I should have informed myself better first because it kinda makes sense since that power plan basically disables EIST and DES on the other hand relies on it...

Disables EIST? My EIST works fine w/ high performance power plan in w7 ultimate; it clocks down the cpu at idle and reduces vcore.

Now, with regards to DES2, I had to install it to see what it did of course. I played around with it for 15 seconds and then got a BSOD. Uninstall immediately after, as it was exactly as horrible as I imagined. Admittedly I was overclocking so I might have asked for it somehow, but I'm all for Dark Mantis' approach to mobo maker supplied software

[Dark Mantis]

Yes proven once more, dangerous stuff! Most of it is only made to look pretty anyway and not of much use. The few bits that are usefull, there are usually other tried and trusted software that is stable and more integrated.