Quote Originally Posted by DistortioniZm View Post
Nope, studies show that the 4th core runs idle in 'most' applications. My cubase 3/ and /5 sees no affect, and games like bioshock and COD4/WAW/Fallout and the like see no real world improvement to me whatsoever. I like to ramp the NB because it seems to get less crackle in my pro audio setup. That's my noob two cents.
Oh I'm all for 3 cores clocked higher than an extra core with a significant sacrifice in OC. But I enabled my ACC just to see and it still booted just the same with just 3 cores. I was under the impression it would either boot with all 4 cores or have issues booting/running stable. It was as if I made no changes at all. I tried the auto setting and "all cores" setting.