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Does Silicon Lottery apply to individual CPU cores/threads compared to the others?

Can individual CPU cores or threads clock faster than the others due to Silicon Lottery? Is it then reasonable that the rest of the cores are held back by the slower one as they need to match it's ...
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Abnormal voltage range and frequency activity on Intel 8550U

I have recently purchased a secondhand/refurbished HP laptop with i7-8550U CPU and MX 150 GPU. The first thing I noticed is that it runs unreasonably slow on games, much slower than my other i7-8550U +...
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Computer slow after plugged into wrong voltage

So I set up a desktop computer running ubuntu in a classroom that was running through an AVR at 220 volts. I got a report that it wasn't working, so I came to look at it, and sure enough, fans and ...
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PC loading programs slower than normal after voltage change [closed]

I always turned on my PC at 220V, it always worked normally. Today I turned my PC at 110V and it was very slow to load any program. I turned it back on at 220V but it is still very low to load ...
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HDD is very slow after voltage drop

The HDD is Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160 Gbytes Model ST3160023A. Of course it is not SATA. I once connected it to the USB via special adapter IDE-to-USB, and a separate power unit. The voltage drop ...
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