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dual core - how to turn off one of them?

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Posted 27 December 2006 - 06:07 AM

HiI'm wodnering is it possibility to turn off one of two cores my indel pentium procesor?
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Posted 27 December 2006 - 07:50 AM

i don't think so....why would you want to do that?
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Posted 27 December 2006 - 09:12 AM

i would like to save more baterypower when i ride by train :)
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Posted 27 December 2006 - 10:40 AM

Just buy a Core Solo, they are just Core Duos that wouldn't work right or weren't built right.
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Posted 27 December 2006 - 11:37 AM

i thought i start a serious problem, i don't need advise like above :evil:
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Posted 27 December 2006 - 01:44 PM

obe, you can't turn off the one of the cores, but you can do stuff like set up a device profile where you can disable some devices like your optical drive, or adjust the brightness of the screen and disconnecting usb devices
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Posted 27 December 2006 - 11:22 PM

thx for Your answer, i am gracefully of thatso this topic i think as closed :)
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Posted 31 December 2006 - 01:02 AM

Guys gezz, you can do it in bios if its provided (my dell's even can set the processors up that way). Or just disable a single processors driver. Even setting the affinity through crtl alt del for the processes can save power by unchecking cpu 1 for every process if you want a real time waster. It can be done and its not dangerous in the least.
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