disabling cores / merging cores

[William444555]

I am very soon going to get an amd fx 9590 (there was a deal on amazon where this was £200 but if not then I wouod have chosen intel <mod edit>) so I will be playing some next gen games at high ish res (2560x1080 21:9) and quite a bit of minecraft, I understand that minecraft only uses 1 core (so far....) so is there any way I could disable 6 cores so the 2 that are on can be cooled better to get better performance (one running windows and other stuff and one for minecraft) or even better merge 2 or more cores together to make a bigger faster core that is beneficial to minecraft (im not that shure whether this can be done so im just throwing it out there)

 

[BigBadBeef]

I think you've been watching too much science fiction. Next time don't but 9590 if you can't cool it inspite of how much it costs. This isn't legos, you can't just take the whole core apart and rework it to your whims!

 

[William444555]

I thought I asked for intel fan boys to shut their faces?

<Moderator Warning: Keep it civil in these forums>

 

[BigBadBeef]

Listen, this isn't about being an intel fanboy, software cannot change how hardware is built, no matter how much you want it.

 

[GhislainG]

I thought I asked for intel fan boys to shut their faces?

BigBadBeef has a point. Why spend that much money and then disable 6 cores? You could probably achieve similar performance with a FX-4350 by disabling the weaker cores and overclocking.

 

[Rit_86]

Yes you can. You just have to become a hotshot at AMD and order your custom fx 9590 to do it
Jokes apart, I think you should listen to what BigBadBeef and GhislainG has to say. While disabling cores is somewhat possible, if not overtly complex, just to achieve better cooling for playing Minecraft, merging cores is impossible.
If you are not overclocking like a maniac, it is better to leave the CPU to itself and it will manage its heat just fine even with the stock cooler. If you are overclocking like a maniac, it is much easier and safer to downclock to the stock frequencies and the temperatures will be just fine.

 

[BigBadBeef]

Or buy a watercooler... if you really got that much money to throw away that you bought an fx 9590, then you toss a little more extra to cool it down!

 

[TechsavvyAMD]

CPU parking will help to park the cores for some time...............which will help to use single core for Minecraft.........

 

[Pinhedd]

I am very soon going to get an amd fx 9590 (there was a deal on amazon where this was £200 but if not then I wouod have chosen intel <mod edit>) so I will be playing some next gen games at high ish res (2560x1080 21:9) and quite a bit of minecraft, I understand that minecraft only uses 1 core (so far....) so is there any way I could disable 6 cores so the 2 that are on can be cooled better to get better performance (one running windows and other stuff and one for minecraft) or even better merge 2 or more cores together to make a bigger faster core that is beneficial to minecraft (im not that shure whether this can be done so im just throwing it out there)

The operating system will automatically place unutilized cores into a low power state which minimizes their power draw and frees up shared cache for other cores to use.

There are a few cases where it's beneficial to disable cores on AMD's FX series microprocessors, and that's usually to reduce cache fighting in highly multithreaded applications. In some cases, disabling one of the cores on each module can actually improve performance but it requires a very particular kind of load. Disabling them will do absolutely nothing for single threaded tasks.

 

[slyu9213]

Some motherboards allow you to disable cores on the FX line of CPUs. If your motherboard supports it you can do so in the BIOS. Additionally you can try turning off cores through msconfig. Turning on Core Parking for every core except the ones your going to utilize may also work.

The problem here is that even at what you paid for the 9590 it was a bad purchase. Also there is no such thing as merging cores. Otherwise an FX 8-Core would have been able to merge cores and make a decent quad-core CPU. Depending on your motherboard it may not support the FX 9590 at all or not run it at full power.