Quote Originally Posted by Voodoo² View Post
Something is no clear for me. Many people says that turbo core kicks in when 3 cores are idle. I think this has to be clarified. It is not the same 3 idle cores than 3 active cores or threads. Because if that is the case and the 960T being just a thuban with 2 disabled cores, What will happen to turbo core in this model? Just one thread/core will be turbo core enabled?
I made a calculation to find out, how this might work. See
http://citavia.blog.de/2010/04/12/tu...cking-8353947/

The problem is, that the turbo mode voltage will be applied to all cores if turbo mode is engaged.

With Zosma 2 cores need to be idle to allow the 2 other cores to engage turbo mode. This would also stay below TDP. But that is based on voltages as known from Thuban.