XTU shows stars next to two of my CPU cores. How do I interpret them?

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Intel@hardware.watchEnglish · 1 year ago

There are stars next to two of my eight P Cores when I view them in XTU.

I assume the stars mean they’re the best two. And should therefore be set to higher clocks than the rest. Default sets these two to 5.8ghz while the rest are set to 5.5ghz.

I’m attempting to optimize my system, so am starting to research how to prioritize games to utilize one of these two cores instead of letting Windows randomly select cores to assign.

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