   core 2 quad
  I have noticed that when doing anything on my PC that core 1 2 and 4 stay below 5% until core 3 reaches at least 80%I'm wondering if this is normalmy third core stays about 9C above all others due to this, on all OSs.i'm mainly wondering why this core gets all the loadmy PC specs2.66 GHz Core 2 quad @ 3.01 GHz8GB 800MHz DDR2 @~920MHz1TB HDDOS: XP x64, Vista Ultimate x64, 7 RC x64, UBUNTU x64, XP x86any ideas?   
Quote:Original post by ThooverI have noticed that when doing anything on my PC that core 1 2 and 4 stay below 5% until core 3 reaches at least 80%I'm wondering if this is normalmy third core stays about 9C above all others due to this, on all OSs.i'm mainly wondering why this core gets all the loadmy PC specs2.66 GHz Core 2 quad @ 3.01 GHz8GB 800MHz DDR2 @~920MHz1TB HDDOS: XP x64, Vista Ultimate x64, 7 RC x64, UBUNTU x64, XP x86any ideas?A wild guess is that it could be more power efficient to let one core work hard than to have all 4 cores sit at 20-25% , as to why its always the third core i wouldn't know. (I could ofcourse be completely wrong and you're having a hardware problem of some sort).   