On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Jonathan Aquilina<eagles051...@gmail.com> wrote: > kilian but how would you know that the 4th core isnt faulty?
Ah, but you don't! That's the catch. No such thing as a free lunch, remember? :) You may get lucky and find out that your disabled core has been crippled only to supply cheaper 3-cores demand, as David Mathog suggested. Or even get a slightly disabled core, which won't cause any trouble in your email writing or Crysis gaming. But chances are, if your needs are more HPC-centric, that you won't really be able to fully take advantage of that fourth core after all. Maybe it's worth trying, maybe it's not, depends what you do. Cheers, -- Kilian _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
