Dear Gurus, Currently i'm in 3D Geological Modelling stuff, where i need fast CPU and large RAM, therefore i got this Dual 3.06 Xeon with 4 Gb Ram. When i'm doing some processing, i noticed that in WIndow Task Manager, the CPU usage in only ~50%. Is there any method that i can use to increase/utilise 100% CPU usage and PF usage?? Thanks

Set the process priority to high or realtime. Otherwise, you really need the source code to the program. The code may not optimized for the Xeon cache. The bottleneck is the throughput of the system (I/O to memory, or the feeding of instructions into the CPU). I suspect I/O to be the real problem. An AMD 64bit CPU might have been a better choice in this situation.

I suggest setting the priority to high. I have tried realtime and had some problems. If you dont know how go to the task manager, find the process you wish to set higher,right click and go to set priority. Hope this helps.

"I have tried realtime and had some problems." Setting the process to a higher priority than explorer is the real problem. Of course, if you can walk away from the box and let the program render, then you won't notice. When its done, just turn the process priority back down.

Dear Gurus, Thank you for the reply.... I got the same problem just like <anonproxy> when using realtime.... Where can i down the "Crosseyes" software? the 3D sofware i'm using requires the use of HummingBird Exceed 3D. is there anyway twitching the exceed?

well you have a dual system. Unless your software is designed to run on multi processors it will only run on one of the 2. Thus the 50% utilization only 1 cpu is doing the work the other is idle.