Slow Cores

spakkker

There "should" be an option in the bios-there is in mine but it may be burried under advanced settings or whatever-unless it's a carpy dell or other proprietory locked down bios.
Why on earth do you want to turn this feature off?? It's as if you want to simply waste energy-like having your pc running on the spot.
When/if your cpu actually has something to do any used cores will run at normal multi , in your case 7.5 ie. 2.5ghz.
Many people will be better off with a faster dual core than a quad parked up in neutral.

edit - must type faster.

Hammyman

Yes you can disable it but it'll mean the chip is running full pelt all the time and hence HOTTER which is never a good thing. As has been said, just let the thing sort it out itself.

AHAR

I didn't think the Speedstep feature on Core 2 processors could adjust the speed of different cores independently?
What does it show when you're running something on all 4 cores such as the benchmark in 7-zip?

50Twuncle

spakkker wrote: »

There "should" be an option in the bios-there is in mine but it may be burried under advanced settings or whatever-unless it's a carpy dell or other proprietory locked down bios.
Why on earth do you want to turn this feature off?? It's as if you want to simply waste energy-like having your pc running on the spot.
When/if your cpu actually has something to do any used cores will run at normal multi , in your case 7.5 ie. 2.5ghz.
Many people will be better off with a faster dual core than a quad parked up in neutral.

edit - must type faster.

It's a MEDION:
Motherboard
Manufacturer MEDIONPC
Model MS-7366
Version 2.2
Chipset Vendor NVIDIA
Chipset Model ID07C7
Chipset Revision A2
Southbridge Vendor NVIDIA
Southbridge Model nForce 630i
Southbridge Revision A2
BIOS
Brand American Megatrends Inc.
Version A7366MLN.20T
Date 12/02/2008

Mobeer

AHAR wrote: »

I didn't think the Speedstep feature on Core 2 processors could adjust the speed of different cores independently?
What does it show when you're running something on all 4 cores such as the benchmark in 7-zip?

I was thinking this too. From an intel representative posting here:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showpost.php?p=39179

it looks like the reported speeds can be different to the actual speeds though, which from that post suggests all cores were at the higher speed.