Quote Originally Posted by saaya


thats what i thougt of once, and i told it to amd when i met them at cebit. i hope they liked the idear and will implement it. lets say you run an app that is heavily single threadded, then wouldnt it be cool if the dual core cpu would disable one of its cores? then it could clock its first core to a much higher speed still staying in the termal envelope and still using the same amount of energy wich would give you a much better result in that single threadded app than having two slower clocked cores, one pretty much idling and the other one crunching really hard. and as soon as you start another second demanding thread then the core1 clocks itself down to normal speeds and the core2 starts up again and you have two cpus crunching, each on one app

this would have to be controlled by the os though i think, as implementing it into a cpu would be very hard to configure i guess... but if it has to rely on the os it means MS, and we all know what this means... it would take years for them to implement it, and by then probably all apps would be highly multithreadded so it woudl be useless...
lol, linux will get taht done really quick im sure lol, 6 months b4 windows mebbe? but ya, that would be a sweet concept