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What do you mean by a "less beefy CPU"? Once you've been able to design the new CPU and test it, it doesn't make sense to have an older/slower design. You could
by shin_lao 14y ago
What do you mean by a "less beefy CPU"? Once you've been able to design the new CPU and test it, it doesn't make sense to have an older/slower design. You could reduce the cache, but it would probably more expensive to build.
If one of your core is idle, the CPU will load it, if there is work to be done.
- bornhuetter 14y agoI think what scarmig is getting at is - wouldn't it be better to have 1 2ghz core and 3 1ghz cores, rather than 4 1.5 ghz cores. I don't know the answer myself, and would be interested if someone could clarify why Intel don't make quad cores with one core being faster than the others. My best guess is that it's hard to keep things in sync if you have different cores on different frequencies or multipliers.