A Good, Inexpensive Single-Core cpu

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:34:27 +0100, "Andrew Morton" wrote:

Puddin' Man wrote:
Does Intel (or AMD for that matter) make A Good, Inexpensive Single-
Core cpu that doesn't heat the entire county (like Prescott)?? :-)


Apparently not, but some motherboards allow you to disable cores through the
BIOS.

To conserve watt consumption, I suppose.

Note that Windows may not work if you install it with [one | two] cores
enabled and then try to boot it with [two | one] core enabled.

Perhaps a registry fiddling would be needed.

But I read that if you're doing multi-threading in your programming and
using those programs on other computers which might have multi-core
processors installed, it is safer to do the testing on a multi-core system
so that any threading issues are more likely to appear.

A potentially valid concern for some.

On the positive side, "Nehalem" processors will be available in a few months
with perhaps as many as eight cores d&c.

Surprising noone.

Sun Niagara 2 8-core has been available 9-10 months? Costs a bunch, 'tho,
and it ain't x86 (by a long shot).

P

"I Ain't Blind, I Just Don't Wanna See"
- the title of a tune by Little Joe Blue, maybe 1966

Puddin' Man wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:34:27 +0100, "Andrew Morton"
Note that Windows may not work if you install it with [one | two]
cores enabled and then try to boot it with [two | one] core enabled.

Perhaps a registry fiddling would be needed.

No, it installs a different hardware abstraction layer (HAL).

Andrew