Disabling Cores to reduce TDP?

timmyctc

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So I made a silly oversight and bought a CPU without checking my MoBo's supported max TDP. As it transpired the board, ASUS, is 95w max and the CPU (FX8350) is 125w.

While I'm waiting on the new MoBo to be delivered I'd still like to be able to play games and such. Are each of the cores weighted equally and would disabling the 7th and 8th cores and running it as a Hexacore reduce any instability until I get to upgrade my Mobo or would I be better reducing voltage?
 

Shamar Holtz

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Lol, that literally what i was bout to post
 

timmyctc

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Thanks guys. Yeah the Bios boots. I was playing DayZ on it yesterday with the cores slightly underclocked and as a quad core just to be safe. Just wanted to double check and see what the max I can safely get out of it is :)