Does having less cores enabled reduce TDP?

NOOB2PRO · Aug 28, 2014

My current CPU (AMD FX 6300) is running on 2 cores for some reason (no idea why its gone like this) but I read online how to enable the other cores. The onnly problem is that my computer can run pretty hot already when playing games so would enabling the rest of the cores increase the TDP?

i7Baby · Aug 28, 2014

Yes - more cores, more power needed.

MostWantedSoulRider · Aug 28, 2014

You can enable all the cores and that won't affect the TDP MUCH yet there will be a significant change (increases) in it.

What is the temperature reading when it is under load because you have stated that your PC runs hot while gaming?

gopher1369 · Aug 28, 2014

It's even possible that it will reduce the temperatures. 2 cores at 100% load will produce more heat than 4 cores at 50%, for example.

NOOB2PRO · Aug 30, 2014

MostWantedSoulRider :

When using 2 cores, it was going up to 70

gopher1369 :

I decided to enable them since I was wondering what performance I was missing out on (and it was a MASSIVE difference

) and then I checked the temperature. On idle, it was only around 30 and while I was gaming it hit 50-. Yep more cores under less load = less heat

.
And heres something that was weird. On 2 cores it was clocked at 3.2ghz but on all 6 it was running at 3.8ghz

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