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Old 9th July 2008
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Originally Posted by vermaden View Post
I have 4 cores @ 3GHz each and I can make them crawl in some circumstances, but of course most of the systems are idle for most of the time, but when the workload comes you have horsepower to cope with it and do not disturb your work waiting for some tasks to finish. but of course not so many people need a lot of horsepower, for most of the time its just waste of power.
I don't know if they already have a technique for this, but it would be nice if one could completely shutdown unused cores and maybe even underclock the used core when computing power is not needed and bring them back online during the few times you'd need that extra computational ability (the old 80/20 rule makes another visit) -- and have it do this on the fly.
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