Rather than being very presumptuous, why not just suck it and see? Run two instances of Prime95, with workloads you may think are appropriate, and see whether you get acceptable performance.
Paul On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 20:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a 3.0GHz P4-D (dual-core) CPU using XP Pro > SP2... > > I'm presuming you could run two instances of Prime95, > one on each core of the CPU, as if it was an dual CPU > system... > > I'm also presuming this would be more efficient than > even a hyper-threaded CPU... > > I'm also presuming unless you have a program > specifically designed to use both cores or able to be > assigned to a specific core, Windows by default will > use only one, ignoring the other completely... > > Are these presumptions correct? > > If so, I'd like to assign an L-L test to the ignored > core, and do a trial-factoring on the other one > (presuming this would be the most efficient use)... > I'm presuming the ignored core, would be core 1 (or in > Prime95's case -- CPU 1)??? > > Ideas? Corrections? > > > _______________________________________________ > Prime mailing list > [email protected] > http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime > _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
