I'm sorry, I don't know any nice way to say this. You necroed a year old post to literally say "have you tried unplugging it and plugging it back in again"? At least if you're going to necro an old post actually read it. Please.
At this point the only way I could do that would be to send it to AMD under the warranty and telling them "one core runs a bit hotter" when the entire CPU is Prime95 stable and that one core can run Prime95 full speed is probably going to result...
I see what you mean. I think that it wouldn't work because the OS would still see it as mostly idle with today's processor handling. What worked back in the day for the likes of Windows XP just doesn't really apply to the latest OSes. Also it...
Well, I would prefer not to add too much extra complexity with management software and etc. At a certain point it starts to defeat any efficiency improvements when you add on too much to... manually add efficiency improvements. That's why when...
Strangely it really feels like Windows is putting stuff more or less in order. I admit it's hard to really tell, but most games in particular seem to always end up starting from core 1 and just going in order, so usually end up on core 4 unless...
If, by that, you mean "core performance order," I guess hwinfo does list that one last (well, it enumerates from 1 instead of 0, so I have to assume it's listing them in the same order.) Which begs the question of why anything that uses four...
Yeah, that's the sort of thing I'd really like to see. I think maybe that's done too "on the fly" so to speak though for it to be so simple. I think you at least have the right general sort of idea, just even if it can be done that way neither...
That would be ridiculously painful to work around getting some stuff to be able to fully utilize the CPU since I'd basically have to manually run each separately. Also, again, I don't really want to disable that core, just make it low priority...
EDIT: At this point I consider the question basically answered. I just didn't realize that essentially it's already basically doing what I want. While some things like games are basically ignoring it, the CPU itself is already sending a...