The cooler can barely handle 6 cores at base clock. It runs cooler under load, which means it will last longer.
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Can you disable CPU cores in OSX?
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Well all of the MBPs run way too hot. Might as well just drop to 1 core ;p shame Apple can’t figure out a realistic thermal solution.
i think the undervolting, turbo disabling and clocking apps are the way to go for limiting cpu heat/speed.
i have no idea what you will be disabling when you cut the core count ? is it real cores or HT cores? and how that relationship works out in the end. (will it be 2 real 2 HT cores or 4 HT cores or what?)
id gess the only time it gets relay hot is when your doing real work which is when you actually need the speed so im not shore of the point, apple care (or like cover) for the laptop and use it hard sounds better to me than buying a top end model and cutting it back by 4 cores.
i have no idea what you will be disabling when you cut the core count ? is it real cores or HT cores? and how that relationship works out in the end. (will it be 2 real 2 HT cores or 4 HT cores or what?)
id gess the only time it gets relay hot is when your doing real work which is when you actually need the speed so im not shore of the point, apple care (or like cover) for the laptop and use it hard sounds better to me than buying a top end model and cutting it back by 4 cores.
6 cores is overkill anyhow.
I also use Turbo Boost switcher to auto-disable Turbo when certain apps run (like SuperDuper! for example).
SuperDuper pegs the 8 logical cores during much of it's run, but the CPU never get hotter than 60C with only 4 physical cores and no turbo. I don't like pushing a CPU to 90C for extended periods, especially in a laptop.