Requeriments for Turbo Core 2.0 support on Bulldozer/Piledriver?

[zir_blazer]

I have been during the last day or two locked on a discussion regarding what you lose by using a Bulldozer on a Motherboard with AMD 7xx or 8xx Chipset. The actual point is mostly regarding to just Turbo Core support. After googling quite a bit and checking a few Socket AM3+ Motherboard Manuals with older Chipsets, I mostly found that they DO have an option to enable Turbo Core, but no reference if it is only for Thuban but doesn't work with Bulldozer/Piledriver (That SHOULD be specified considering that if they're AM3+, they are Bulldozer era). And I didn't found neither any official info that confirm or denies that it works, so as far that I could figure out, the FX series needs only BIOS support for Turbo Core 2.0, it is independent of the Chipset and Socket (AM3 or AM3+).

So basically, can anyone with a Bulldozer or Piledriver test and post proof if Turbo Core 2.0 works on a AM3/AM3+ Motherboard with a non-AMD 9xx Chipset? You will have a lame thanks for your efforts.

[repman]

I have been during the last day or two locked on a discussion regarding what you lose by using a Bulldozer on a Motherboard with AMD 7xx or 8xx Chipset. The actual point is mostly regarding to just Turbo Core support. After googling quite a bit and checking a few Socket AM3+ Motherboard Manuals with older Chipsets, I mostly found that they DO have an option to enable Turbo Core, but no reference if it is only for Thuban but doesn't work with Bulldozer/Piledriver (That SHOULD be specified considering that if they're AM3+, they are Bulldozer era). And I didn't found neither any official info that confirm or denies that it works, so as far that I could figure out, the FX series needs only BIOS support for Turbo Core 2.0, it is independent of the Chipset and Socket (AM3 or AM3+).

So basically, can anyone with a Bulldozer or Piledriver test and post proof if Turbo Core 2.0 works on a AM3/AM3+ Motherboard with a non-AMD 9xx Chipset? You will have a lame thanks for your efforts.

I remember there were some people who tried to run BD/PD on 890 chipset with AM3 socket.

Managed to find 2 threads about it:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...-IV-890-boards
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...eleases/page54

As far as I remember from reading it, turbo does function but not properly.

[zir_blazer]

Very interesing. Considering that the Crosshair IV Formula you linked is an old pre-Bulldozer Socket AM3 Motherboard and it supports Turbo Core to some degree, I think its quite safe to assume that on a proper AM3+ that was made with Bulldozer in mind it would work properly (Heck, there are even AM3+ Motherboards with the archaic GeForce 7025! And the one I checked claimed on the manual Turbo Core support). What I find hard to believe, is that considering that Bulldozer launched ONE YEAR AND HALF ago, there are some things like this one still left to figure out. I have expected that all questions would have been answered by now.

I'm still looking for a few solid proofs that I could use as fact about this.

[The Stilt]

CPB has no chipset limitations.
Some of the older motherboards simply have too old AGESA version.
To make it work the bios needs to be recompiled with newer a AGESA version.

[CrimInalA]

CPB has no chipset limitations.
Some of the older motherboards simply have too old AGESA version.
To make it work the bios needs to be recompiled with newer a AGESA version.

I would like a recompile for my CHIVF
Is this something the community can do ? Or only the manufacturer .

[The Stilt]

Without the original uncompiled, model specific bios code it is nearly impossible.

[CrimInalA]

I was afraid you were going to say that