Hello,
I've got an Intel Core i7 Q820 processor with four cores, clocked at 1.7 - 3.0 GHz. If I understand the architecture correctly, it uses full clock speed when there is only one demanding task, and when there are multiple tasks it clocks to a lower speed to save energy and warmth.
There seem to be particular slowdowns when I play a game and still have the browser open. Normally one would suppose that the demand of a browser in the background would be relatively small. However, could it be that simply by the four core architecture there is the problem that no matter how undemanding the background task itself, the tasks get separated to different cores and the clock speed remains far below the full potential. So that having a CPU like this results in much more significant slowdowns than having a CPU with less cores and more "stability" of clock speed.
That would also mean that the quadcore architecture has a significant weakness that somewhat defeats its purpose of higher efficiency (if it gets so easily and pointlessly slowed down).
I've got an Intel Core i7 Q820 processor with four cores, clocked at 1.7 - 3.0 GHz. If I understand the architecture correctly, it uses full clock speed when there is only one demanding task, and when there are multiple tasks it clocks to a lower speed to save energy and warmth.
There seem to be particular slowdowns when I play a game and still have the browser open. Normally one would suppose that the demand of a browser in the background would be relatively small. However, could it be that simply by the four core architecture there is the problem that no matter how undemanding the background task itself, the tasks get separated to different cores and the clock speed remains far below the full potential. So that having a CPU like this results in much more significant slowdowns than having a CPU with less cores and more "stability" of clock speed.
That would also mean that the quadcore architecture has a significant weakness that somewhat defeats its purpose of higher efficiency (if it gets so easily and pointlessly slowed down).