Ok this one is for the real techies here...
Peeps, got an interesting question here: running a quad core QX6700 and found an option on my motherboard, Gigabyte DS4 to limit CPU ID to 3 to stay compatible with older OS's, or something similar. Anyway, upon setting that option on, I have found out that in XP or Vista for that matter shows my cpu to have only 2 cores instead of 4, effectively turning off 2 cores. I ran SiSoft to confirm and it benches the same as the dual core E6700.
On device manager - it only shows 2 processors, so are only 2 real cores being used or is this virtual 2 cores or 1?
Power consumption is it less because of it or the same?
Peeps, got an interesting question here: running a quad core QX6700 and found an option on my motherboard, Gigabyte DS4 to limit CPU ID to 3 to stay compatible with older OS's, or something similar. Anyway, upon setting that option on, I have found out that in XP or Vista for that matter shows my cpu to have only 2 cores instead of 4, effectively turning off 2 cores. I ran SiSoft to confirm and it benches the same as the dual core E6700.
On device manager - it only shows 2 processors, so are only 2 real cores being used or is this virtual 2 cores or 1?
Power consumption is it less because of it or the same?