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4 stars
Version: Mz Cpu Accelerator 3.0
"Very good addition to any tweaked pc"
Pros: Good UI. Adds the benefits of dynamically allocated CPU priority to good ole Windows. Works pretty well out of the box(and can be tweaked to work even better.
Cons: Sometimes a bit slow in initial response if CPU load is high. Exclusions tab a necessity for some users to learn if user multitasks with certain apps.
Summary: The program does just what it says, with slow and fast machines I tested seeing some benefit. Some of my high end encoding software would bring a couple single core AMD machines I still use to their knees when it came to doing anything else, even web browsing(unless I manually set them to idle priority). While this software does take a few seconds to respond after a second app needing priority is launched, I was able to do whole sessions of browsing and even some flash games seamlessly for whole sessions, all the while while running either my h264 encoder or WinRar in highest compression mode. It also has a nice exclusions tab for avoiding the program prioritizing programs that are either CPU hogs or not time critical tasks, which would be counter-productive to prioritize. I already had many program priorities fine tuned, and this app adds some dynamic allocation to really help with time critical tasks. Helps with games that use multiple processes, as well. I would give it 5/5 if it responded faster upon initial launch of a higher priority task and maybe had a bit better documentation(though the lesser documented features were easy for me to figure out, they may not be as easy for the novice).
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