Asus EC

[maneil99]

So normally after installing some drivers the Asus EC sensor normally reenables on its own, this time its not, I'm not sure if I should manually enable it for fears that its instable. Is it really a big deal? Isn't it just because it conflicts with Asus' Ai SUITE II

 

[Martin]

Yes, sometimes it might conflict with ASUS AI SUITE, but on most systems it should work fine. The other negative effect is that sometimes reading from that sensor might cause a higher system load. But I cannot give you an exact advice, only "try and see"...

 

[maneil99]

Yes, sometimes it might conflict with ASUS AI SUITE, but on most systems it should work fine. The other negative effect is that sometimes reading from that sensor might cause a higher system load. But I cannot give you an exact advice, only "try and see"...

Are we talking huge voltage spikes ect or just higher CPU usage? Like 50 % spikes and stuff

 

[Martin]

Only occasional CPU usage (or DPC latency) spikes.

 

[maneil99]

Only occasional CPU usage (or DPC latency) spikes.

What is DPC? And how high are the spikes, just wondering. Also, normally I install HWinfo before I install my Motherboard drivers and the EC Sensor reneables itself. Why didn't that happen this time

 

[Martin]

DPC = Deferred Procedure Call - a mechanism in Kernel to run certain higher-priority code.
You can check that latency using a tool called "DPC Latency Checker" (http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml).