AMD Has An Ace Up Its Sleeve

[iocedmyself]

I imagine the clock increases are related to the memory dividers...remember those who were running a 6000x2 with a 3ghz clock had thier 800mhz memory speed rounded down to 750mhz because odd dividers were't allowed? But despite things like that AMD still managed 25% memory performance with that $180 chip than Intels $1500 chip.

I don't really recall the "turbo button", but i do recall the dip switches for manually setting the cpu multiplier...the Socket A gigabyte GA700x2 was one such board. Those were annoying to rely on alone, but were more stable in some instances then bios changes.

Guess we'll have to wait and see....howeveri feel i must say this again...AMD/ATI cpus/gpus are for 64bit vista/DX10 games.

Intel/nvidia is for people who want to spend $4000 on a new rig every 4 months running 32bit xp/vista and bragging about thier 700fps in doom3

 

[hawler]

Why is everyone so confused by this article.....it really couldn't be more straight forward. the new mobos with the new chips give you a small automatic OC. that wasn't so hard was it guys?

 

[Kari]

[citation][nom]extechguy[/nom]I agree. Everyone I knew left the turbo button on all the time.[/citation]The point with that turbo button was to slow down the PC to be more compatible with really old games(other software) that didn't have any means of limiting the games speed. With fast hardware those games would have been impossible to play, everything would have happened way too fast. Some games would even crash completely... this was back on the 286/386/486 era or there abouts...

 

[Guest]

Apparently nobody had seen the adds for the Lenovo 3000 K100 desktop systems that have a "Turbo" mode button very prominently positioned on the front of the system. I am sure they are not the only ones that are going to offer this "turbo/auto/cool" setup, because everyone has become so energy conscious.

 

[simple_inhibition]

you would think that with this free upgrade to 2.8/3.0/3.2ghz, AMD would just release said processors at those speeds instead. i foresee massive RMA's due to "faulty" motherboards because the cpu cant play at those speeds. if AMD can pull it off, well then cool. we need someone to put pressure on intel. if they fall on their face.........again......they take yet another PR hit.

 

[Guest]

LOl stop being cheap, just by an Inel and stop torturing the small helpless animal that is AMD

 

[thepinkpanther]

uhhhhhhh? what is this article saying? ive never heard about running any phenom stably @ 2.8ghz. How is the speed gonna be upgraded? is it a downloadable update? "Now we just need to know how this overclocking feature will compare to Intel’s processors" the q6600 can go up to 3.6, 3.4 easily! And we know intel is faster clock for clock. AMD is gonna pull an ace outta its sleeve only to find out intel has the other 4...

 

[grieve]

Im sold.. AMD for me! lol, what a bunch of crack heads, if they made the damn thing faster in the first place they wouldn’t be second best.

"An overclocking feature for AMD CPUs. It just does not get any more better than this."
-maybe that comment doesn’t count North America, Europe, Asia, where it is better. Also… what’s with the horrendous grammar, don’t they have an editor?

Hats off to AMD, maintaining second place perfectly....in a group of two!

I believe it was Ricky Bobby who once said "If you aint first, your last!"

 

[miribus]

[citation]AMD is gonna pull an ace outta its sleeve only to find out intel has the other 4...[/citation]

5 aces huh? Intel does cheat, bring on the Antitrust suits!

I think the article is referring to the rumored (but I had thought they ended up giving up on it... hmm...) integrated clock generator on the SB.
How that automatically translates to a seemingly guaranteed and stable 200Mhz boost is beyond me, but only they know their silicon. Especially since they are basically telling us something we already knew, which is that you can more easily overclock a Black Edition cpu...
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I'm figuring that these extra pins are power pins which is probably why they didn't mention power consumption. (which clearly will be higher... duh...) Without increasing voltage the likelihood of any serious damage to the processor isn't going to be noticeable.
It seems strange though that if the processors could always run faster, albeit with apparently a higher but in spec(?) voltage, they wouldn't have just done that in the first place... strange either way.

Now, back to the people who are staying up at night not beign able to figure out this 2.8Ghz Phenom business.
The secret word of the day is: "upcoming"
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/upcoming
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/upcoming

The article clearly states:
"If you are running an upcoming 2.8 GHz Black Edition CPU,"

 

[thomasxstewart]

Although it may seem Thin Ace. Its continuation of AMD sorting what works from whats NOT.

Its Turbo all Right as theINQ stated, it is also dual bios system, so you can tweak & in time of crisis, slip back to default without losing slowly built up Ober mode.

Mostly its way to test interaction of mainboard to ptrocessor under O/S. Which should lead to refinement & improvement. Its seems well written to ME.

Signed😛HYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART VON DRASHEK M.D.

 

[Guest]

It's really quite simple. AMD wants to be opposite of the buy a new motherboard to support the new chip every 4 months competition... They have always said any AM2(+) motherboard can run any AM2 CPU, and that still stands. the 2.8 clock speed is what it can safely run on the current socket / boards. New boards have new features, new pin(s), so it takes advantage of it giving you higher speeds. Buying new, you get better, just want to upgrade without buying new, hey AMD will let you.

 

[mitchellvii]

tHE

 

[abhylal]

What about the 785G motherboards?