How are the cores arranged on the Q6600 die?

[slvrstang]

I just started folding using VMWare. It uses two cores per instance and I want to use the two cores that share the same L2 cache.

I assumed it was 01|23 but others have said it's 02|13 for core arrangement.

Anybody know?

 

[patonb]

(0,1) (2,3) Is what i've gone with.

With folding, i just let it run all 4 cores... I seen no noticable ppd change, and keeps the cores an even temp. I use to run it 1,2 and had 10-15C core differences.

Just watch, as windows auto places gpu on 3.

Oh, watch your OC, foldings very hard on them.

 

[slvrstang]

(0,1) (2,3) Is what i've gone with.

With folding, i just let it run all 4 cores... I seen no noticable ppd change, and keeps the cores an even temp. I use to run it 1,2 and had 10-15C core differences.

Just watch, as windows auto places gpu on 3.

Oh, watch your OC, foldings very hard on them.

VMware folding likes to have 2 cores per instance so I think setting affinity for each instance is a good idea so all the calculations for 1 instance can run on the same cache.


and yeah, i found out that folding is hard on OCs. I had a crash after 6 hours at 3.80ghz, I have since dropped to 3.60ghz.

 

[patonb]

Oh, oky, youre running 2 sets.... I need my other cores for work.