>> I'm presuming the ignored core, would be core 1 (or in
>> Prime95's case -- CPU 1)???

>Ummm - a dual core CPU is supposedly the same as two single core CPUs except 
>for the packaging.
   
  That's what the tech specs say. Two complete CPUs on a single piece of 
silicon (die). From what I've read though, Windows will only make use of one 
core, unless a program specifies otherwise (64-bit Windows might be different). 
A few tests I ran seem to confirm that.
   
   
  >> If so, I'd like to assign an L-L test to the ignored
>> core, and do a trial-factoring on the other one
  
> I run two LL tests on my dual core.  This *may* be slightly less throughput 
> than
> one LL and one TF, but the GIMPS project needs more LL testing than TF. 
   
  If that's what needs to be done, then that's will shall be done...  :-)   
   
  Looking at the PrimeNet reports, seems it not only needs more LL testing than 
TF, but has a lot of very old first-time LL exponents.  some having only a 
couple 1000 iterations done in over a year.
   
   
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