"If your CPU power dropped by 75% for an hour every day, how long would it take you to notice?" As long as the hour was one when I was using it, I would immedi

"If your CPU power dropped by 75% for an hour every day, how long would it take you to notice?" As long as the hour was one when I was using it, I would immediately notice. But then, I usually only work on dual and quad-core boxes and our optimizing compiler isn't. Maybe I wouldn't notice if I were on a 16 core box and it was just one of the cores.