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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 |
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A Good, Inexpensive Single-Core cpu
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 |
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