Hi paffinity. Thanks for those beautiful detailed instructions! This is the best solution so far. I didn't know that making and viewing such low level system changes was so easy with the right commands. I'm using a test "throw-away" Fedora 22 setup and its seeing only 5 CPUs after the reboot...
Now this is what I had in mind! I was going to use Windows 10 as the host O/S and have one or two Linux VMs. I might do that in reverse if I can get this working with a Linux kernel.
Yeah, unfortunately that won't work in my case since one of the cores is defective and should not ever be booted with. Also I would have to do that affinity change with *every* process that I ever start.
Not bad. I see that ancient Athlon X2 supports AM3 and DDR3 so should work! Only thing is I think my 3.2GHz Phenom II X6 in single core mode would still be about equivalent performance! ;-)
I also see that X2 is on eBay for $9.95 shipped!
Yeah, I've been reading about core disabling at the O/S layer. Supposedly Windows has such a thing as well.
One thing I need to research is *when* the OS kernel actually enables/disables cores during its boot up. The big problem here is core #2 is defective. If threads are dispatched onto...
Yes. Unfortunately, this BIOS appears to disable from the 6th core at the end and work its way backwards. So my core #2 is in the worst possible position! If only my 6th core was bad! Then I could just choose the 5 core option! :(
Hi Larry. I wish I had one of those motherboards! :)
You mean above that AMD cores can have their respective memory controller disabled? If disabled, it will use a shared memory controller in the NB?
I'm building a budget file server oriented non-gaming AMD system from some new and old spare parts. After low level memtest86 testing the new build, I found that core #2 of my old six-core AMD Phenom X6 1090T immediately fails it tests -- probably its memory controller circuits are damaged --...
I already got one these puppies on order from Amazon which includes a $15 instant rebate on an MSI 790FX-GD70 mobo plus another $20 MSI mail-in rebate. I was considering an Core I7 until I saw this. Sweet deal! Hurry up and ship the damn thing Amazon!
Good point. I did not fully appreciate that the CPU's memory controller actually has a separate electrical path to the memory. Somehow, I always associated that the memory control logic was just built into the CPU but the physical path always went out the FSB. Now I understand why Intel...
I use the Thermaltake BlacX.
http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Products.aspx?C=1346
Love these things as you can treat a whole SATA HDD like a cartridge (accepts both 2.5" and 3.5" HDDs). I've got 5 different models of them since my first one! Not one has died yet.
Thermaltake also has...
Two biggies that use up big memory on my setup: (1) need to run a virtual machine and (2) video editing. Even when working with photos, my ACDSee image processing software is using up like 400+ MB.
Also I've been using a virtual desktop system for many years now on Windows (XDESK). This...
Not if the motherboard can set the FSB-to-memory clock ratio so you can get 2000 where you would otherwise normally get 1333 or 1600. I believe DDR3-2000 works out nicely with a 7.5 multiplier. Yes, all parts would still be running at "stock speeds" but just a faster stock. But are you...
Yes, I briefly looked at those -- nice CAS8 speed. But I plan to go to 16GB eventually and this Corsair Dominator kit would take up all my 4 memory slots to get my required 8GB total RAM. Nice fans on those but those little fans are probably sleeve bearings and end up not working within like 4...
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