Is it safe to disable cores in the bios?

Jazzy1

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I have an i7 2600 non k and wanted to do some hyperthreading benchmarks. Now because hyperthreading has little performance gains on a quad, I wanted to see the performance difference if I ran 2 cores with hyperthreading or 1 core with hyperthreading. I can disable the cores in the bios but I wanted to know if it's safe.
 
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perfectly safe..
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perfectly safe..
 
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