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Yanko693 · 07-04-2009, 05:21 PM

why would you want to force core usage? try looking in your bios for any kind of power saving features. i'm not familiar with the i7 but i know some amd cpu's have a power save kind of thing where it shuts down two cores when not really needed.

07-04-2009, 05:21 PM	#2 (permalink)
Yanko693 Bronze Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: NE OH Posts: 57	why would you want to force core usage? try looking in your bios for any kind of power saving features. i'm not familiar with the i7 but i know some amd cpu's have a power save kind of thing where it shuts down two cores when not really needed.