Recent content by Nazo

I'm sorry, I don't know any nice way to say this. You necroed a year old post to literally say "have you tried unplugging it and plugging it back in again"? At least if you're going to necro an old post actually read it. Please.

At this point the only way I could do that would be to send it to AMD under the warranty and telling them "one core runs a bit hotter" when the entire CPU is Prime95 stable and that one core can run Prime95 full speed is probably going to result in a refusal under a warranty claim anyway. I...

I see what you mean. I think that it wouldn't work because the OS would still see it as mostly idle with today's processor handling. What worked back in the day for the likes of Windows XP just doesn't really apply to the latest OSes. Also it definitely would still use a bit of CPU power (if...

Well, I would prefer not to add too much extra complexity with management software and etc. At a certain point it starts to defeat any efficiency improvements when you add on too much to... manually add efficiency improvements. That's why when I initially looked into this my first thought was...

Strangely it really feels like Windows is putting stuff more or less in order. I admit it's hard to really tell, but most games in particular seem to always end up starting from core 1 and just going in order, so usually end up on core 4 unless it's an older one that only truly uses two threads...

If, by that, you mean "core performance order," I guess hwinfo does list that one last (well, it enumerates from 1 instead of 0, so I have to assume it's listing them in the same order.) Which begs the question of why anything that uses four cores (eg most newer games) ends up on that one...

Yeah, that's the sort of thing I'd really like to see. I think maybe that's done too "on the fly" so to speak though for it to be so simple. I think you at least have the right general sort of idea, just even if it can be done that way neither of us knows how, lol.

That would be ridiculously painful to work around getting some stuff to be able to fully utilize the CPU since I'd basically have to manually run each separately. Also, again, I don't really want to disable that core, just make it low priority getting only whatever is left over after the...

EDIT: At this point I consider the question basically answered. I just didn't realize that essentially it's already basically doing what I want. While some things like games are basically ignoring it, the CPU itself is already sending a preferred core order to the OS and, as expected, the...

I'm one of those people. I'm tired of fans grinding. It's an awful noise. I've had quite a number of them do it over the decades I've been using computers including one now that I have to bump around a few times to make it stop (this is the one that is going to go ASAP.) I'm not really going...

That Gentle Typhoon looks really good -- possibly among the better fans even -- but it's about double the pricerange. Not really cheap anymore when you hit the $20 for one range. I know it doesn't sound like a huge distinction, but I have about $20 total to work with for now, so that would...

The topic is "what are my options?" Your response was effectively you ordering me to go buy one specific model immediately without any consideration of other options. That isn't on topic. I've already added it to a wishlist to consider. At this point you're just trolling. I'll save you the...

The point was to see if there were any other brands and models I should be looking at. How is any of this discussion of whether some AIOs are better quality than others and whether or not AIOs existing proves that a specific fan is somehow better in some way on topic? So far people have...

That line of conversation is completed. The loop is closed. Let's return to the original track. Further off-topic discussion is not needed.

I'm in a bit of a financial situation. To you it's no biggie tossing out $35 every few years, but to me it has been problematic for quite some time. So yes, I need fans to last and, as I already said, I needed to aim for something more akin to $20 total. The BeQuiet fans are almost guaranteed...