On Mar 9, 2012, at 8:17 AM, Jörg Duurkoop wrote:
Hi,
Your dual 1.25 will have a 2mb cache while the single will have a 1mb
so a dual running on one processor should still be faster than a
single.
Why not just install CHUD, a toolbox for developers? Then you can
switch on and off one of the CPUs with a mouse click ...
This option has been discussed here and I did it. It works great. When
I listen to music, watch a DVD or leave my Mac on at night to download
big files I switch it to single CPU mode. When I need all the power I
can get, browsing on the net or using Adobe apps, I turn on the second
CPU. Works like a charm, de difference in temperature can be up to 16
centigrades.
Downgrading a dual MDD would not be very wise IMHO.
Regards, Jörg.
Your solution would work if I were still going to run MacOSX on this
G4 PowerMac MDD system, but I am not. If you had read my original
message more closely, you would have seen that I will only be running
MorphOS2.7 on this computer from now on. MorphOS2.7 is not SMP
capable, so there is no need for the second G4 CPU. The CHUD program
you wrote about is for MacOS only, unless it is some kind of Open
Firmware program. I could only use it if it can be run from the Open
Firmware prompt, before I boot into MorphOS2.7.
Thanks for the response anyway.
David
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